warism

English edit

From war +‎ -ism.

warism (uncountable)

Belief that war is justifiable in principle and can be justified in actual cases.
- 1991, Patrick G. Coy, Review of From Warism to Pacifism: A Moral Continuum, by D. L. Cady. International Social Science Review, 66(4),, page 185:
  The book opens with an examination of warism, the uncritical presumption that war is morally justified, even morally required.
- 2016, Michaeleen Kelly, "Just War Theory as Ideological and Combatant Role Confusion," International Journal of Peace Studies 21(2):
  He argues that in our own contemporary Western culture, warism is a dominant outlook.