We are understandably reluctant to "rank" moral atrocities. What is worse, genocide or terrorism? In this book, Thomas W. Simon argues that politicians use this

In this contribution to philosophical ethics, Claudia Card revisits the theory of evil developed in her earlier book The Atrocity Paradigm (2002), and expands i

Much is at stake when we choose a word for a form of violence: whether a conflict is labeled civil war or genocide, whether we refer to “enhanced interrogatio

This book draws together the results of six decades of research on the psychology of mass hate. It focuses on situations where large portions of nations or cult

This book asks whether just war theory and its rules for determining when war is justified remains adequate to the challenges posed by contemporary developments