Toward a Fair Concept and Theory of Just War. A Tool For a Reasonable Diplomatic Dialogue and For the Science of International Relations

National Research University Higher School of Economics

 

Centre de Recherche des Écoles de Saint-Cyr

Coëtquidan

 

 

Toward a Fair Concept and Theory of Just War

A Tool For a Reasonable Diplomatic Dialogue and For the Science of International Relations

 

 

 

Moscow, 9-11 March 2016

11 Myasnitskaya, Room 325

 

 

 

 

 Conference Program

 

9 March

 

9:30-10:00

Registration

Session 1

Chair: Arseniy Kumankov

10:00-10:20

Conference Opening

 

10:20-11:00

Professor Henri Hude. CREC. “From the Just War Problem to the Just Alliances Solution?”

 

11:40

Professor Boris Kashnikov.HSE. “Just War Theory as War, Justice and Theory”.

 

11:40-12:00 – Coffee break

 

Session 2

Chair: Henri Hude

12:00-12:40

Professor Thomas Flichy de la NeuvilleandStéphane Baudens. CREC. “Which world in 2030? Can the world evolve and become more balanced without wars?”

 

12:40-13:20

Professor Andrey Korotayev.HSE. “Anatomy of Egyptian Counterrevolution”.

 

13:20-14:00

Professor Olivier Hanne. CREC. “The Critical Role Of France In The Building Of A Post-Islamist Muslim World”.

 

 

14:00-15:00 – Lunch

 

 

 

Session 3

Chair: Boris Kashnikov

15:00-15:40

Colonel Jacques Hogard. Epée Company. “Information in War and Information War. Rwanda. Kossovo. The Point of View of an Officer in the Field and his Reflections”.

 

15:40-16:20

Oleg Bondarenko.ICRC, Moscow. “International Humanitarian Law: the main IHL norms and principles in the context of combatting terrorism”.

 

16:20-17:00

Arseniy Kumankov.HSE. “Just War Theory and War on Terror”

 

 

10 March

 

Session 4

Chair: Olivier Hanne

10:00-10:40

Colonel Philippe Sidos. French Ministry of Defense. Paris Ecole Militaire. The soviet war in Afghanistan. A narrative and an assesment from a military and moral point of view”.

 

10:40-11:20

Professor Maxim Bratersky. HSE.“Soft Dimension of Hard Power in Russian Conduct”.

 

11:20-12:00

Arnaud Leclercq. CREC. “Why Russian Military Recent Intervention are Perceived by the West as Being Groundless and Immoral?”

 

 

12:00-12:20 – Coffee break

 

Session 5

Chair: Arseniy Kumankov

12:20-13:00

Mikhail Mironuk,Artem Maltsev, Kirill Toloknev. HSE. “Rise of the Carceral State as an Unintended Consequence of the Post-Cold War Liberal Policy of Securitization”.

 

13:00-13:40

Professor Alexander Nikitin. MGIMO. “Military and Peacekeeping Role of International Organizations in Conflicts and Wars”.

 

13:40-14:20

Professor Michail Ilyin. HSE. "Are we still doomed to fight the wars of our ancestors?"

 

14:20-15:20 – Lunch

 

Session 6

Chair: Thomas Flichy de la Neuville

15:20-16:00

Lieutenant-Colonel François-Régis Legrier. French Ministry of Defense. “A French Military reading of Soloviev's Three dialogues about war, morals and religion”

 

16:00-16:40  

Timofey Dmitriev. HSE. “Violence and Morals: Rethinking the European Tradition”.

 

16.40-17.20

Egor Sokolov.MSU. “World War I: Moral Sense and Political Value”.

 

18.00-21.00

Optional. Dinner at a restaurant.

 

 

 

 

 

11 марта

 

Session 7

Chair: Stéphane Baudens

10:00-10:40

Professor Aleksey Soloviev. MSU. "Contemporary Hybrid Wars: Reasons, and alternatives”. In French (Guerre hybride: origines, modernité, alternatives).

 

10:40-11:20

Alain Delange. CREC. “NATO. A Just Alliance for Just Wars?”

 

11:20-12:00

Professor Aleksei Kozyrev.MSU. “Soloviev’s The Meaning of War and its historical perspective”. In French.

 

12:00-12:20

Closing of the conference