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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Original Title -- Original Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 The Practice of a States-System -- 2 Legitimacy in a States-System: Vattel's Law of Nations -- 3 Patterns of Thought and Practice: Martin Wight's 'International Theory' -- 4 The Political Theorists and International Theory -- 5 The Problem of Meaning in International Thought -- 6 Knowledge, the State and the State of Nature -- 7 International Society and International Theory -- 8 Justice in International Relations -- 9 Obligation and the Understanding of International Relations -- 10 The Justification of the State -- 11 International Relations and Philosophy of History -- 12 Schools of Thought in International Relations -- Index.

Whether retaliation prevents repetition and other costs and benefits of military and economic counterstrikes in contemporary geopolitical context. Exemplified by the 1965 US air bombing campaign against North Vietnam, the 1965 Israeli counterstrikes in Jordan, the 1986 US air strike in Tripoli, and similar political decisions.

Terrorist acts viewed under the "just war" concept; based on conference paper. Assassination, kidnapping, hostage-taking, terrorism of governments against its own citizens by arrest, torture, punitive raids, and relocation.

Many readers will have long known Professor Michael Walzer's remarkable book Just and Unjust Wars. The most interesting thing I can do is to discuss the way it has been received in some centres of the study of international relations in Britain. Professor Hedley Bull, Professor W. B. Gallic and Mr David Watt have reviewed it with Important differences but all to the same ultimate effect. Oxford, Cambridge and the Metropolis conclude that It Is a shallow book, lacking In philosophical depth.