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Contemporary Just War - Theory and Practice (Paperback)
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Contemporary Just War - Theory and Practice (Paperback)
Series: War, Conflict and Ethics
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This book offers a renewed defense of traditional just war theory
and considers its application to certain contemporary cases,
particularly in the Middle East. The first part of the book
addresses and responds to the central theoretical criticisms
levelled at traditional just war theory. It offers a detailed
defense of civilian immunity, the moral equality of soldiers and
the related dichotomy between jus ad bellum and jus in bello, and
argues that these principles taken together amount to a morally
coherent ethics of war. In this sense this project is traditional
(or "orthodox"). In another sense, however, it is highly relevant
to the modern world. While the first part of the book defends the
just war tradition against its revisionist critics, the second part
applies it to an array of timely issues: civil war, economic
warfare, excessive harm to civilians, pre-emptive military strikes,
and state-sponsored assassination, which require applying just war
theory in practice. This book sets out to reaffirm the basic tenets
of the traditional ethics of war and to lend them further moral
support, subsequently applying them to a variety of practical
issues. This book will be of great interest to students of just war
theory, ethics, security studies, war and conflict studies, and IR
in general.
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