1st Edition
Military Necessity and Just War Statecraft The Principle of National Security Stewardship
1. Returning Military Necessity to the Jus in Bello
Eric Patterson
2. Natural Law and the Just War Ethic: Reaffirming Common Moral Traditions
J. Daryl Charles
3. Military Necessity as Distinct Jus in Bello Principle: A Classical Just War Perspective
Christian Nikolaus Braun
4. What is Military Necessity? A Defense of the Marginal Interpretation
David Luban
5. Inevitable and Indispensable: A conceptual approach to Necessity in War and Conflict
Louis Bujnoch
6. Military Necessity, Catholic Thinking, and the Great Wars
Pedro Erik Carneiro
7. Necessity, Convenience, and Point of View: Military Necessity in Just War
Pauline Shanks Kaurin
8. Military Necessity and Realism: Comparing Permission and Limitation in Christian, Islamic, and Hindu Thought
Valerie Morkevičius
9. The Military Necessity of Ethics
Shannon E. French and J. A. French Flint
10. Operation Wrath of God: Illegal but Necessary
Amos N. Guiora
11. Military Necessity in the Gray Zone
Joshua Hastey
12. Military Necessity as Moral Imperative: Just War and Hiroshima
Marc LiVecche
13. Military Necessity: The Road Ahead
Eric Patterson
Biography
Eric Patterson is 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 War and Christianity: A Concise Introduction (2023) and 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 at the College of Leadership and Ethics in the U.S. Naval War College. He is author of The Good Kill: Just War and Moral Injury (2021).
