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"Bringing just war doctrine to life, Richard J. Regan raises a host of difficult questions about the evils of war, asking first and foremost whether war is ever justified, and, if so, for what purposes? Regan considers the basic principles of just war theory and applies those principles to historical and ongoing conflicts through case studies and discussion questions. His well-received 1996 work is updated with the addition of case studies on Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and Islamist terrorist organizations. Especially timely are the added discussions of the use of drones to assassinate terrorist leaders and, in the matter of weapons of mass destruction, asking how certain is "certain enough" that a country has weapons of mass destruction before it can be justly attacked? Regan considers the roles of the president, Congress, and the U.N. Security Council in determining when long-term U.S. military involvement is justified."--Publisher's description

Introduction: The just war myth and the politics of war -- The myths and memes of political life -- Genealogy of the just war tradition -- Duels and modern wars -- The myth of American exceptionalism -- The preemptive war doctrine -- Torture and terrorism -- Humanitarian intervention and the crusade for democracy -- Jus in bello and the war in Iraq -- The myth of pacifism -- Citizenship, responsibility, and peace

The basis of this collection of essays is the reading of a common topic from different perspectives. The contributors compare and contrast not only positions, but also methods of learning. They examine theories of just war in diverse cultural contexts and their disciplinary settings

Intro -- Titre -- Copyright -- Sur l'auteur -- À propos du livre -- Pour référencer cet eBook -- Table des matières -- Introduction. - Limitation, étatisation et « juridicisation » de la guerre à l'époque moderne (Thomas Berns / Juliette Lafosse) -- La doctrine de la guerre juste dans la pensée antique et médiévale (Merio Scattola) -- Guerre juste et guerre régulière dans la doctrine espagnole du XVIe siècle (Peter Haggenmacher) -- Hugo Grotius : le défi politique, la guerre juste, la paix (Hans W. Blom) -- De l'approche de la guerre par analogie aux lois de l'honneur chez Hobbes (Thomas Berns) -- Le problème de la guerre juste chez Leibniz et les fondements métaphysiques d'une politique perspectiviste (Quentin Landenne) -- Vers la paix perpétuelle ? Du droit des gens au droit cosmopolitique, un passage historique (Juliette Lafosse) -- La guerre contre-révolutionnaire : une juste guerre contre la guerre du droit ? Les paradoxes de la guerre totale contre la « révolution totale » (Jean-Yves Pranchère) -- Hegel et les trois justifications de la guerre (Louis Carré) -- La théorie moderne de la guerre juste - ou du justus hostis - et la pensée de l'ordre concret chez Carl Schmitt (Marie Goupy) -- La crise de juillet-août 1914, le changement de sens de la guerre et Le nomos de la Terre (Pierre-Yves Condé) -- Biographies des auteurs.

Gender, Justice, and the Wars in Iraq offers a feminist critique and reconstruction of just war theory. It points out gender biases in the just war tradition and suggests alternative jus ad bellum and jus in bello standards that emphasize women, political marginality, and empathy. Laura Sjoberg applies this feminist just war theory to analyze the wars in Iraq since the end of the Cold War

In this volume, a sequel to Ideology, Reason, and the Limitation of War, James Turner Johnson continues his reconstruction of the history of just war tradition by analyzing significant individual thinkers, concepts, and events that influenced its development from the mid-eighteenth century to the present. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts

Institutionalizing the Just War provides a new approach to theorizing the morality of war and argues that sound moral principles regarding war-making must take into account the fact that the validity of moral principles can depend upon existing institutions and social practices.

Andrew Fiala's Against Religion, Wars, and States: The Case For Enlightenment Atheism, Just War Pacifism, and Liberal-Democratic Anarchism argues that we need to overcome the idea of the nation-state and look toward global justice, that we need to develop a more critical stance toward religion while embracing enlightened humanism and natural science, and that we need to look beyond violent solutions to social problems in order to build world peace