The Ethiopian campaign and French political thought / Yves R. Simon ; translated by Robert Royal ; edited by Anthony O. Simon ; foreword by A. James McAdams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Simon, Yves R., 1903-1961.

Contributor:

Simon, Anthony O.

Standardized Title:

Campagne d'Éthiopie et la pensée politique française. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

League of Nations.

Italo-Ethiopian War, 1935-1936--Foreign public opinion, French.

Italo-Ethiopian War, 1935-1936.

Italo-Ethiopian War, 1935-1936--Moral and ethical aspects.

Preemptive attack (Military science).

Just war doctrine.

History.

Intellectuals--Political activity.

Relations.

France--Relations--Italy.

France.

Italy--Relations--France.

Italy.

Intellectuals--Political activity--France--History--20th century.

Intellectuals.

Public opinion--France--History--20th century.

Public opinion.

Italo-Ethiopian War, 1935-1936--Diplomatic history.

Diplomatic history.

League of Nations--History.

Just war doctrine--Case studies.

Preemptive attack (Military science)--Case studies.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 131 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, [2009]

Summary:

Yves Simon was one of the preeminent Thomistic philosophers and political theorists of the twentieth century. He saw it as a moral duty to understand human reality and to use philosophical analysis to examine contemporary politics when they embodied philosophical errors or vicious ideologies. In The Ethiopian Campaign and French Political Thought, Simon extracts principles from the 1894 Dreyfus Affair in France and applies them to Italy's 1935 invasion of Ethopia. As Simon's analysis shows, the relatively obscure events leading up to the Italian invasion had larger implications for Europe and the world, perhaps even paving the way for Vichy France's collaboration with Hitler's German New Order.

Contents:

From before the war to the Stresa Conference

What do we care about Ethiopia?

The anti-fascist crusade

But is this war just?

Ethiopia's foreign relations

The mad dog

Ethiopia's internal situation

The covenant of the League of Nations

British policy

The intervention of the intellectuals

Reflections on certain resistances to the progress of international law

7 March 1936

Appendix 1: Ethiopia revisited : the road to Vichy

Appendix 2: Manifestos and documents

Manifesto of French intellectuals for the defense of the West

Response to the manifesto (for the defense of the West) of the Fascist intellectuals

Concerning the Italo-Ethiopian conflict : manifesto for justice and peace

An open letter signed by a group of French writers

An open letter from Gabriel Marcel.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

026804130X

9780268041304

OCLC:

368047355

Publisher Number:

99944055725