Just Wars: From Cicero to IraqISBN: 978-0-7456-3283-4
Paperback
296 pages
November 2006, Polity
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- Comprehensive introduction to a key topic in security and
conflict studies
- Provides a detailed historical analysis of the just war
tradition, from antiquity through the middle ages and the
renaissance to the ‘war on terror'
- Shows how Just War theory relates to contemporary problems of
humanitarian intervention, terrorism and self-defence
- Detailed discussion of the work of thinkers from Machiavelli to
Morgenthau, and from Kant to Walzer
- Clearly and engagingly written, ideal for a student audience