Just War Theory

A Reappraisal

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Edited by Mark Evans

Palgrave

Due/Published October 2005, 224 pages, cloth

ISBN 140397148X

This book addresses the criticisms and explores new angles to just war thinking, analyzing its practical adequacy in the face of modern-day realities. It is written with the aim of stimulating debate, recasting or revivifying critical reservations, but also powerfully demonstrating how just war theory cannot be ignored if we take seriously the moral questions warfare forces upon us.

Contents

Moral Theory and the Idea of a Just War--Mark Evans
The Justice of Preemption and Preventive War Doctrines--Neta C. Crawford
Punitive Intervention: Enforcing Justice or Creating Conflict?--Anthony F. Lang Jr.
In Humanity's Name: Democracy and the Right to Wage War--Mark Evans
The Concept of Proportionality: Old Problems, New Ambiguities--Kateri Carmola
Just War? Just Children?--Helen Brocklehurst
Is There A Supreme Emergency Exemption?--Brian Orend
Security Beyond the State: Cosmopolitanism, Peace and the Role of Just War Theory--Patrick Hayden
Forgiveness and Reconciliation in Just Post Bellum--Andrew Rigby
In Defence of Just War Theory--Mark Evans