War and individual rights: the foundations of just war theory

3.5. The acting-on interpretation of the doctrine3.6. A rights-based alternative; 3.7. Three objections; 3.8. Rights and intentions; 4. Liability to Defense; 4.1. The rights enforcement account; 4.2. Defense against the innocent; 4.3. Defense of the guilty; 4.4. The defense liability principle; 4.5. Three objections; 4.6. Forfeiture; 4.7. Montague and McMahan; 5. Necessity and Proportionality in Defense; 5.1. A defense of internalism; 5.2. Necessary harm; 5.3. Proportionate harm; 5.4. Do the numbers count?; 6. Liberating Just War Theory from Double Effect; 6.1. The structure of my argument.

The book begins with the assumption that even in war individual rights demand respect. Drawing from the insights of John Locke and other thinkers in the natural rights tradition, Draper reaches the conclusion that, despite the moral obstacles posed from respecting such rights, sometimes war is justified. Throughout the chapters, he develops and defends a framework of rights to serve as the foundation for a new just war theory.