Limited Force and the Fight for the Just War Tradition / Christian Nikolaus Braun.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, [2023]Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2023Copyright date: ©[2023]Description: 1 online resource (256 pages)Content type:
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  • 9781647123437
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Contents:
Limited Force and the Fight for the Just War Tradition -- The Neoclassical Just War as Third Way -- Recapturing Casuistry for Just War Thinking -- Why Aquinas? -- Aquinas on the Authority to Wage War -- Aquinas on Just Cause and Right Intention -- The Cases : Targeted Killing -- Targeted Killing : Casuistical Investigation and General Argument -- The Cases : Limited Strikes to Enforce International Norms -- Limited Strikes : Casuistical Investigation and General Argument.
Summary: "One of the most contentious developments in contemporary international affairs has been the increase in uses of force-short-of-war, such as targeted killings, limited airstrikes, and no-fly zones. On the one hand, uses of force-short-of-war appear more compartmentalized and containable, but on the other hand, they have encouraged a more frequent recourse to arms. How, then, are we to make moral sense of this shift toward the small-scale uses of force? This debate has divided just-war theorists, but author Christian Nikolaus Braun offers a new perspective. He evaluates comprehensively the ethics framework jus ad vim (the just use of force-short-of-war) as a pillar of just war theory and as a practical matter of deciding when military interventions below the level of war can and cannot be justified. The book's moral argument will rely on a historical reading of the just-war thought of Thomas Aquinas"-- Provided by publisher.
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Limited Force and the Fight for the Just War Tradition -- The Neoclassical Just War as Third Way -- Recapturing Casuistry for Just War Thinking -- Why Aquinas? -- Aquinas on the Authority to Wage War -- Aquinas on Just Cause and Right Intention -- The Cases : Targeted Killing -- Targeted Killing : Casuistical Investigation and General Argument -- The Cases : Limited Strikes to Enforce International Norms -- Limited Strikes : Casuistical Investigation and General Argument.

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"One of the most contentious developments in contemporary international affairs has been the increase in uses of force-short-of-war, such as targeted killings, limited airstrikes, and no-fly zones. On the one hand, uses of force-short-of-war appear more compartmentalized and containable, but on the other hand, they have encouraged a more frequent recourse to arms. How, then, are we to make moral sense of this shift toward the small-scale uses of force? This debate has divided just-war theorists, but author Christian Nikolaus Braun offers a new perspective. He evaluates comprehensively the ethics framework jus ad vim (the just use of force-short-of-war) as a pillar of just war theory and as a practical matter of deciding when military interventions below the level of war can and cannot be justified. The book's moral argument will rely on a historical reading of the just-war thought of Thomas Aquinas"-- Provided by publisher.

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