Military Necessity and Just War Statecraft

ISBN-13: 9781032487090 / Twarda / 2023 / 224 str.

Opis

This book analyses the concept of military necessity and just war thinking, and argues that it should be seen as a vital moral principle for leaders.

Spis treści

1. Returning Military Necessity to the Jus in Bello  2. Natural Law and the Just War Ethic: Reaffirming Common Moral Traditions  3. Military Necessity as Distinct Jus in Bello Principle: A Classical Just War Perspective  4. What is Military Necessity? A Defense of the Marginal Interpretation  5. Inevitable and Indispensable: A conceptual approach to Necessity in War and Conflict  6. Military Necessity, Catholic Thinking, and the Great Wars  7. Necessity, Convenience, and Point of View: Military Necessity in Just War  8. Military Necessity and Realism: Comparing Permission and Limitation in Christian, Islamic, and Hindu Thought  9. The Military Necessity of Ethics  10. Operation Wrath of God: Illegal but Necessary  11. Military Necessity in the Gray Zone  12. Military Necessity as Moral Imperative: Just War and Hiroshima  13. Military Necessity: The Road Ahead

O autorze

Eric Patterson, Scholar-at-Large and former dean of the School of Government at Regent University. He is author or editor of 20 books, including, most recently, Just American Wars (2019).

Marc LiVecche is the McDonald Distinguished Scholar of Ethics, War, and Public Life at Providence: A Journal of Christianity & American Foreign Policy and serves as a non-resident research fellow in the College of Leadership and Ethics at the US Naval War College. He is author of The Good Kill: Just War and Moral Injury (2021).