The Ethiopian Campaign and French Political Thought

Yves R. Simon, Yves Simon, Anthony O. Simon

• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Year: 2009
• Print ISBN: 9780268041304
• eBook ISBN: 9780268092719
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Political Philosophy
• Index: Politics & International Relations

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.

This book, available for the first time in English, offers an interesting case study of such ethical concerns as just war theory and pre-emptive war, and is of particular relevance in our modern political climate.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half title
• Title page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Translator’s preface
• Introduction
• 1. From before the War to the Stresa Conference
• 2. What Do We Care about Ethiopia?
• 3. The Anti-Fascist Crusade
• 4. But Is This War Just?
• 5. Ethiopia’s Foreign Relations
• 6. The Mad Dog
• 7. Ethiopia’s Internal Situation
• 8. The Covenant of the League of Nations
• 9. British Policy
• 10. The Intervention of the Intellectuals
• 11. Reflections on Certain Resistances to the Progress of International Law
• 12. 7 March 1936
• Appendix 1: Ethiopia Revisited
• Appendix 2: Manifestos and Documents
• Notes
• Bibliography
• index