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Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Walzer's Career -- Approach and Chapter Outline -- 1 The Justice of Resorting to War -- Against Vietnam -- In Defense of Just-War Theory -- The Theory of Aggression -- Exceptions: Civil War and Pre-Emption -- Humanitarian Intervention -- 2 Justified Conduct in War -- Non-Combatant Immunity and Double Effect -- "Supreme Emergency" and the Limits of jus in bello -- Terror and Threats to Civilians -- The "Moral Equality of Soldiers" -- 3 Complex Equality and the "Spheres of Justice" -- Intellectual and Political Context -- Walzer's Project -- Distribution for Right Reasons -- The Social-Meaning Thesis -- Walzer's Contribution -- 4 Complex Equality and the Social Democratic Critique of Liberalism -- Political Vision -- Walzer and Dissent -- Socializing Democracy -- Civil Society, Community, and Free Association -- Complex Inequality? -- 5 The Challenge of Diversity -- "Communities of Character": The Case for Border Restrictions -- Multiculturalism and the Politics of Difference -- Community and Identity -- 6 Justice Beyond Borders -- Justice After War -- Global Governance and Human Rights -- Global Distributive Justice -- Pluralism and the Left -- 7 Religion and Politics -- Early Work - Symbolism and Discipline in the Study of Puritanism -- Religious Symbols and National Liberation -- The Jewish Political Tradition -- 8 Interpretive Method and Social Criticism -- Three Paths in Moral Philosophy -- The Practice of Social Criticism -- Thick and Thin: Reconciling Universal and Particular -- Walzer as a Social Critic -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Introduction -- 1 The Justice of Resorting to War -- 2 Justified Conduct in War -- 3 Complex Equality and the "Spheres of Justice" -- 4 Complex Equality and the Social Democratic Critique of Liberalism.

This article explores the connection between political theory and political commentary in the editorial stance of Dissent magazine's staff, especially Irving Howe, Lewis Coser, and Michael Walzer. It argues that central to the political thought of the Dissent circle was a rejection of ideological Puritanism on the American left. Dissent's theoretical contribution was to develop a space for a policy-oriented social democratic platform that draws on both liberalism and communism while transforming them. Thus, Howe sought a socialism that drew on valuable liberal insights, while Walzer looked for a permanent uneasy coexistence between social democracy, liberalism, and communitarianism.

One of the major developments in international law since World War II is the growth of human rights law dedicated to ensuring the protection of individuals from violence wherever they are, including from their own state. Tracking such changes, in recent decades, just-war theory has evolved from its traditional focus on state sovereignty in the direction of a rights-based approach that treats just wars as a form of global law enforcement. This monograph provides a survey of these developments, focusing on the increased scope for humanitarian intervention, principles of justice after war, and on the question of the responsibility of combatants for assessing the justice of their military's cause. It concludes by considering the call for strengthening international institutions and training programs in military ethics. ; https://press.armywarcollege.edu/monographs/1396/thumbnail.jpg