The Future of Just War: New Critical EssaysCaron E. Gentry, Amy E. Eckert Just War scholarship has adapted to contemporary crises and situations. But its adaptation has spurned debate and conversation—a method and means of pushing its thinking forward. Now the Just War tradition risks becoming marginalized. This concern may seem out of place as Just War literature is proliferating, yet this literature remains welded to traditional conceptualizations of Just War. Caron E. Gentry and Amy E. Eckert argue that the tradition needs to be updated to deal with substate actors within the realm of legitimate authority, private military companies, and the questionable moral difference between the use of conventional and nuclear weapons. Additionally, as recent policy makers and scholars have tried to make the Just War criteria legalistic, they have weakened the tradition’s ability to draw from and adjust to its contemporaneous setting. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Legitimate Authority | 17 |
chapter three Is Just Intervention Morally Obligatory? | 48 |
chapter four Private Military Companies and | 62 |
chapter five Postheroic U S Warfare and | 79 |
chapter seven An Alternative to Nuclear Weapons? Proportionality | 115 |
chapter eight Rethinking Intention and Double Effect | 130 |
chapter nine Just War without Civilians | 148 |
Justice in the Aftermath of War | 167 |
Contributors | 181 |