1st Edition
The Just War Tradition: Applying Old Ethics to New Problems
Preface Henrik Syse 1. Introduction: The Just War Tradition and the Continuing Challenges to World Public Order Davis Brown 2. Judging the Judges: Evaluating Challenges to Proper Authority in Just War Theory Davis Brown 3. Waging Defensive War: The Idea and Its Normative Importance Joseph Boyle 4. Allies in Tension: Identifying and Bridging the Rift Between R2P and Just War Henrik Friberg-Fernros 5. War and Intention Darrell Cole 6. Humanitarian Intervention: Loose Ends Fernando R. Tesón 7. Proportionality in Modern Just War Theory: A Tort-based Approach Davis Brown 8. Reasonable Probability of Success as a Moral Criterion in the Western Just War Tradition Frances V. Harbour 9. The Just War Index: Comparing Warfighting and Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan A. Walter Dorn 10. Explaining the Principle of Mala in Se Morten Dige 11. Just Torture? Shunzo Majima 12. Industrial Challenges of Military Robotics George R. Lucas, Jr 13. Jus Post Bellum: Foundational Principles and a Proposed Model George M. Clifford III
Biography
Davis Brown is an assistant professor of political science at Maryville University of St. Louis, USA. He is the Director of the Just War Theory Project, an interdisciplinary network of scholars studying the role of just war theory in the maintenance of world public order.
Henrik Syse is a senior researcher at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), Norway, and also teaches ethics and military affairs at the Norwegian Defense University College and at Björknes College, Oslo. He is co-editor of Journal of Military Ethics, with Martin L. Cook.
