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Author:

Brunstetter, Daniel R., author.

Title:

Just and unjust use of limited force : a moral argument with contemporary illustrations / Daniel R. Brunstetter.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2021

Description:

vii, 286 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

War--Moral and ethical aspects.
Limited war.
Guerre--Aspect moral.
Guerre limitee.
Limited war.
War--Moral and ethical aspects.
War--Moral and ethical aspects.
Limited war.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [259]-280) and index.

Contents:

Introduction : Between war and not war -- Part I. Blurring the lines : law enforcement, fractured order, and warlike force -- Limited force and the trumph, crisis, and schism of just war thinking -- Part II. Imaging jus post vin -- Jus ad vin -- The probability of escalation principle -- jus in vi -- Part II. jus post vin revisited -- Conclusion : consensus, divergence, debate.

Summary:

'Just and Unjust Uses of Limited Force' revists 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.

ISBN:

9780192897008
0192897004

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1235870320

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)