
New Interventionist Just War Theory
This book offers a systematic critique of recent interventionist just war theories, which have made the recourse to force easier to justify.
The work argues that these theories, including neo-traditionalist prerogatives to national leaders and a cosmopolitan human rights paradigm, offer criteria for war that are insufficient in principle and dangerous in practice. Drawing on a plurality of moral co...
This book offers a systematic critique of recent interventionist just war theories, which have made the recourse to force easier to justify.
The work argues that these theories, including neo-traditionalist prerogatives to national leaders and a cosmopolitan human rights paradigm, offer criteria for war that are insufficient in principle and dangerous in practice. Drawing on a plurality of moral co...