Is there such a thing as a rogue state?

Abstract

My main concern in this paper is not the issue of whether the states usually identified as 'rogue' – North Korea, Iraq, and Iran, for example – deserve to be so classified, or whether the term can be plausibly applied to the United States or even Australia. I want to concentrate on the notion of rogue or outlaw state itself – what meaning it has, what it is supposed to imply; whether its use can ever be justified, andhow it is supposed to relate to ideas about just war and international justice that have informed philosophical thinking about relations between state