Format:
Online-Ressource (337 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9781589019966
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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
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Cover; Contents; Preface; Introduction: The Just War Tradition and the Practice of Political Authority; PART I: THE PRACTICE OF AUTHORITY; 1 The Right to Use Armed Force: Sovereignty, Responsibility, and the Common Good; 2 Just War and Political Judgment; 3 Natural Flourishing as the Normative Ground of Just War: A Christian View; 4 ''Not in My Name''? Legitimate Authority and Liberal Just War theory; 5 The Inseparability of Gender Hierarchy, the Just War Tradition, and Authorizing War; 6 Legitimate Authority and the War against Al-Qaeda
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7 Problems of Legitimacy within the Just War Tradition and International Law8 Narrative Authority; PART II: AUTHORITY IN PRACTICE; 9 Culpability and Punishment in Classical Theories of Just War; 10 The Necessity of ""Right Intent"" for Justifiably Waging War; 11 Revenge, Affect, and Just War; 12 Just War and Guerilla War; 13 Bugsplat: US Standing Rules of Engagement, International Humanitarian Law, Military Necessity, and Noncombatant Immunity; 14 Just War and Military Education and Training; PART III: THE TRIUMPH OF JUST WAR?; 15 The Triumph of Just War Theory and Imperial Overstretch
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16 The Wager Lost by Winning? On the ''Triumph'' of the Just War TraditionConclusion: Reclaiming the Just War Tradition for International Political Theory; Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781589016811
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781589019966
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Just War : Authority, Tradition, and Practice
Language:
English
Subjects:
Political Science
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