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Just Wars: From Cicero to Iraq
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Just Wars: From Cicero to Iraq Hardback - 2006 - 1st Edition

by Alex J. Bellamy

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In what circumstances is it legitimate to use force? How should force be used? These are two of the most crucial questions confronting world politics today.

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.

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  • Title Just Wars: From Cicero to Iraq
  • Author Alex J. Bellamy
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 280
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Polity Press
  • Publication date November 1, 2006
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780745632827 / 0745632823
  • Weight 1.23 lbs (0.56 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.08 x 6.2 x 1.08 in (23.06 x 15.75 x 2.74 cm)
  • Category Politics / Current Events
  • Library of Congress subjects War - Moral and ethical aspects, Just war doctrine
  • Dewey Decimal Code 172.42

About the author

Alex Bellamy is Lecturer in Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Queensland.

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