Just Wars: From Cicero to IraqISBN: 978-0-7456-3283-4
Paperback
296 pages
November 2006, Polity
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The Just War tradition provides a set of criteria which
political leaders and soldiers use to defend and rationalize war.
This book explores the evolution of thinking about just wars and
examines its role in shaping contemporary judgements about the use
of force, from grand strategic issues of whether states have a
right to pre-emptive
self-defence, to the minutiae of targeting.
Bellamy maps the evolution of the Just War tradition, demonstrating how it arose from a myriad of sub-traditions, including scholasticism, the holy war tradition, chivalry, natural law, positive law, Erasmus and Kant's reformism, and realism from Machiavelli to Morgenthau. He then applies this tradition to a range of contemporary normative dilemmas related to terrorism, pre-emption, aerial bombardment and humanitarian intervention.