Bringing together both contemporary and historical just war concepts, Peter Lee shows that Blair’s illusion of morality evaporated quickly and irretrievably after the 2003 Iraqinvasion because the ideas Blair relied upon were taken out of their historical context and applied in a global political system where they no longer hold sway.
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Introduction Blair and Just Intervention Are We Sure of Our Case? Views from the Academy Authority, Legitimacy and War Regime Change Confronting Tyranny Protecting the Weak Fighting the Fight Reflections
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Peter Lee is Lecturer in Air Power Studies at King’s College London, based at RAF College Cranwell in Lincolnshire, UK. During the build-up to the 2003 invasion and for most of the period of the UK’s involvement in Iraq, he served as a RAF chaplain. He is regularly invited as a public speaker to give seminars on this subject to military, academic and wider audiences.
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