The Morality of War: A Reader

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	2007/415 pages/LC: 2006024725 Sorry. Ebook unavailable.

The collection begins with the foundational works of just war theory, as well as those of two competing perspectives, realism and pacifism. Subsequent selections focus on issues related to the resort to war, the conduct of war, and the judgment of war crimes. Both traditional just war concerns and those that have emerged in response to contemporary development—such as the U.S. "war on terror"—are thoroughly covered.

With articles that are crucially relevant to today's world paired with contextual introductions to each section, the reader is ideally constructed to inform and guide students as they consider the morality of past and current military actions.

• Introduction.
• HISTORICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL APPROACHES TO THE MORALITY OF WAR.
• Realism: Introduction.
• The Talks at Melos—Thucydides.
• Political Power and International Morality—H.J. Morgenthau.
• Pacifism: Introduction.
• The Complaint of Peace—D. Erasmus.
• Last Message to Mankind—L. Tolstoy.
• War and Non-Resistance—B. Russell.
• Just War Theory: Introduction.
• The City of God—St. Augustine.
• War and Killing—St. Thomas Aquinas.
• On the Law of War—F. de Vitoria.
• The Rights of War and Peace—H. Grotius.
• On the Law of War—S. Pufendorf.
• RESORT TO WAR (JUS AD BELLUM).
• Aggression and Self-Defense: Introduction.
• The Legal Status of War—Y. Dinstein.
• Resort to Coercion—M.S. McDougal and F.P. Feliciano.
• Charter of the United Nations.
• Resolution 3314: Definition of Aggression.
• Preemption and Prevention: Introduction.
• National Security Strategy of the United States of America.
• Preemption, Prevention, and Jus ad Bellum.
• Self-Defense and the Use of Force—M.A. Drumbl.
• An Unnecessary War—J.J. Mearsheimer and S. Walt.
• Terrorism: Introduction.
• Terrorism, Rights, and Political Goals—V. Held.
• The Morality of Terrorism—I. Primoratz.
• Terrorism Without Intention—D. Rodin.
• Intervention: Introduction.
• A Few Words on Non-Intervention—J.S. Mill.
• The Moral Basis of Humanitarian Intervention—T. Nardin.
• The Responsibility to Protect—G. Evans and M. Sahnoun.
• CONDUCT OF WAR (JUS IN BELLO).
• Combatant Rights: Introduction.
• Third Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War.
• Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 (Part III).
• Should the Ticking Bomb Terrorist Be Tortured?—A.M. Dershowitz.
• Noncombatant Rights: Introduction.
• Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 Part IV).
• Fourth Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War.
• Supreme Emergency—M. Walzer.
• Maintaining the Protection of Noncombatants (Part 1)—J.T. Johnson.
• Blockades and Sanctions: Introduction.
• Maintaining the Protection of Noncombatants (Part 2)—J.T. Johnson.
• Economic Sanctions and the Just-War Doctrine—D. Christiansen and G.F. Powers.
• Economic Sanctions and the "Fearful Spectacle of Civilian Dead"—J. Gordon.
• Technology and War: Introduction.
• The Hatfields and the Coys—P. Ramsey.
• War and Peace in the Modern World—US Catholic Bishops.
• The Legitimization of Violence—R. Normant and C. af Jochnick.
• WAR CRIMES AND JUDGMENT (JUS POST BELLUM).
• War and Crime: Introduction.
• Charter of the International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg).
• The Law of the Nuremberg Trials—Q. Wright.
• Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.
• Comparative Complementarity—M.A. Newton.
• Judgment and Enforcement: Introduction.
• Dissent from the US Supreme Court's Ruling in Yamashita v. Styer—Justice F. Murphy.
• Responsibility for Crimes of War—S. Levinson.
• The Politics of War Crimes Tribunals—G.J. Bass.