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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Cambridge ; New York :
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[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- 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.