Just and Unjust Uses of Limited Force - A Moral Argument With Contemporary Illustrations

Just and Unjust Uses of Limited Force revisits recent conflicts animating contemporary just war scholarship as instances of limited force, drawing insights from the just war tradition. Looking at these contemporary examples, the book teases out an ethical account of force-short-of-war.

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1: Blurring the Lines: Law Enforcement, Fractured Order, and Warlike Force


• 2: Limited Force and the Triumph, Crisis, and Schism of Just War Thinking


• 3: Imagining Jus Post Vim


• 4: Jus Ad Vim


• 5: The Probability of Escalation Principle


• 6: Jus In Vi


• 7: Jus Post Vim Revisited


• Conclusion

About the author

Daniel Brunstetter is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine. Daniel's work on just war thinking explores the history of the just war tradition and critically examines contemporary debates about the use of force. His works is published in Ethics & International Affairs, Journal of Military Ethics, Political Studies, Review of International Studies, International Journal of Human Rights, Peace Review and elsewhere. He is the author of Tensions of Modernity: Las Casas and His Legacy in the French Enlightenment (Routledge, 2012), and co-editor of two edited volumes that cover a variety of themes related to the ethics of war: The Ethics of War and Peace Revisited: Moral Challenges in an Era of Contested and Fragmented Sovereignty (Georgetown University Press, 2018) and Just War Thinkers: From Cicero to the 21st Century (Routledge, 2017).

Summary

Just and Unjust Uses of Limited Force revisits recent conflicts animating contemporary just war scholarship as instances of limited force, drawing insights from the just war tradition. Looking at these contemporary examples, the book teases out an ethical account of force-short-of-war.

Product details

• Authors: Daniel R. Brunstetter, Daniel R. (Associate Professor Brunstetter, Brunstetter Daniel R.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.06.2021
• EAN: 9780192897008
• ISBN: 978-0-19-289700-8
• No. of pages: 300
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Military Science, International Relations, Political science & theory, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Political science and theory, Theory of warfare and military science, Theory of warfare & military science