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This book analyses the concept of likelihood of success in just war thinking and argues that if the concept is to be retained, it must be reconsidered within the overall whole of the tradition of just war.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. Introduction: Making Sense of "Likelihood of Success" in the Just War Tradition 2. Worse Things Than Losing: Underdogs Defining Likelihood of Success
5. What Should We Hope For? In Search of Reasonable Definitions of Success
6. From Likelihood of Success to Likely Consequences
7. Mixed Motives and the Likelihood of Success
8. A Reasonable Chance of Success and the (Low) Probability of Meeting All Just War Theory Precepts
9. Humanitarianism & Tranquilitas Ordinas in Jus Post Bellum
10. When You Can't Afford to Miss: Likelihood of Success and Discrimination in Cyberwarfare
11. Atomic Signaling: Exploring Likelihood of Success and Military Necessity through the Bargaining Model of War
13. Just War Moral Reasoning, Golden-Rule Ethics, and the Politics of Rescue: Reassessing "Reasonable Chance of Success" in the Light of Geopolitical Evil,
14. Strategic Special Operations and the Likelihood of Success
15. Conclusion: David and Goliath
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Eric Patterson (PhD, University of California, Santa Barbara) is president & CEO of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, a scholar-at-large, the former dean of the School of Government at Regent University, USA, and a research fellow and former faculty member at Georgetown University's Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs. He is the author or editor of 22 books, including
Just American Wars: Ethical Dilemmas in U.S. Military History (2019).
Robert J. Joustra (PhD, University of Bath) is a professor of politics & international studies at Redeemer University, Canada. He is a senior editor at
The Review of Faith & International Affairs and author or editor of many books on religion and politics, including most recently
Power Politics & Moral Order - Three Generations of Christian Realism (2022).
