The Cambridge handbook of the just war /

This book assembles renowned scholars from around the world to reflect on the most pressing problems and questions in Just War Theory, and engages with all three stages of war: jus ad bellum, jus in bello, and jus post bellum. Providing detailed historical context as well as addressing modern contro...

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Other Authors: May, Larry (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2018]
Series:Cambridge handbooks in philosophy.
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505 0 |a Foreword / Jeff McMahan -- Introduction / Larry May -- Part I. Historical background. The Just War tradition in late antiquity and the Middle Ages / John Mark Mattox -- Grotius and the early modern tradition / Johan Olsthoorn -- Part II. Initiating a just war. State defense / Yitzhak Benbaji -- Just cause and the continuous application of Jus ad bellum / Uwe Steinhoff -- The condition of last resort / Suzanne Uniacke -- The moral problems of asymmetric war / Steven P. Lee -- Part III. Conducting a just war. Individual self-defense in war / Lionel K. McPherson -- Distinction and civilian immunity / Shannon E. French -- Proportionality and necessity in bello / Jovanna Davidovic -- Weighing civilian lives in war : domestic versus foreign / Saba Bazargan-Forward -- Drone warfare and the principle of discrimination / Eric Joseph Ritter -- Part IV. Just war and international legal theory. Jus ad bellum / Larry May -- The basic structure of Jus in bello / Jens David Ohlin -- Necessity and proportionality in international law / Adil Ahmad Haque -- Humanitarianism : neutrality, impartiality, and humanity / Elizabeth Lanphier -- The challenge to the laws of war by Islamic Jihad / Shannon Fyfe -- Afterword / Henry Shue. 
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