The price of peace : just war in the twenty-first century / edited by Charles Reed and David Ryall.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Reed, Charles.

Ryall, David.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Just war doctrine.

War--Moral and ethical aspects.

War.

Physical Description:

xvii, 340 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Summary:

A re-examination of the Just War tradition in the context of the twenty-first century.

Contents:

Part 1 A framework for ethical decision making: state and civil society-based approaches 17

2 The development of just war thinking in the post-Cold War world: an American perspective / George Weigel 19

3 Is there a European approach to war? / William Wallace 37

4 Between development and doubt: the recent career of just war doctrine in British churches / Nigel Biggar 55

5 Just war thinking in recent American religious debate over military force / James Turner Johnson 76

Part II Responding justly to new threats 99

6 Humanitarian intervention / David Fisher 101

7 Terrorism / Jean Bethke Elshtain 118

8 Rogue regimes, WMD and hyper-terrorism: Augustine and Aquinas meet Chemical Ali / Paul Schulte 136

9 Moral versus legal imperatives / Frank Berman 157

Part III Fighting wars justly 177

10 The ethics of 'effects-based' warfare: the crowding out of jus in bello? / Paul Cornish 179

11 The just conduct of war against radical Islamic terror and insurgencies / Terrence K. Kelly 201

Part IV Securing peace justly 217

12 Justice after war and the international common good / John Langan 219

13 Conditions for jus in pace in the face of the future / Gwyn Prins 236

14 From just war to just peace / Mary Kaldor 255

15 A US political perspective / Michael O. Wheeler 277

16 A British political perspective / Michael Quinlan 286

17 An American military ethicist's perspective / Shannon E. French 295

18 A British theological perspective / Richard Harries 304.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-322) and index.

ISBN:

0521860512

9780521860512

0521677858

9780521677851

OCLC:

74523261