The just war tradition is central to the practice of international
relations, in questions of war, peace, and the conduct of war in
the contemporary world, but surprisingly few scholars have
questioned the authority of the tradition as a source of moral
guidance for modern statecraft. Just War: Authority, Tradition, and
Practice brings together many of the most important contemporary
writers on just war to consider questions of authority surrounding
the just war tradition. Authority is critical in two key senses.
First, it is central to framing the ethical debate about the
justice or injustice of war, raising questions about the
universality of just war and the tradition's relationship to
religion, law, and democracy. Second, who has the legitimate
authority to make just-war claims and declare and prosecute war?
Such authority has traditionally been located in the sovereign
state, but non-state and supra-state claims to legitimate authority
have become increasingly important over the last twenty years as
the just war tradition has been used to think about multilateral
military operations, terrorism, guerrilla warfare, and sub-state
violence. The chapters in this collection, organized around these
two dimensions, offer a compelling reassessment of the authority
issue's centrality in how we can, do, and ought to think about war
in contemporary global politics.
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