How can some politicians, pundits, and scholars cite the principles of "just war" to defend military actions—and others to condemn those same interventions? J

In this volume, a sequel to Ideology, Reason, and the Limitation of War, James Turner Johnson continues his reconstruction of the history of just war tradition

America and the Just War Tradition examines and evaluates each of America’s major wars from a just war perspective. Using moral analysis that is anchored in t

The just war tradition is central to the practice of international relations, in questions of war, peace, and the conduct of war in the contemporary world, but

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