The Price of Peace: Just War in the Twenty-First Century

by Edited by Charles Reed , David Ryall , Foreword by Richard Dannatt

• ISBN13: 9780521677851
• ISBN10: 0521677858
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-03-12
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Lively political and public debates on war and morality have been a feature of the post Cold War world. The Price of Peace argues that a re-examination of the Just War tradition is therefore required. The authors suggest that despite fluctuations and transformations in international politics, the Just War tradition continues to be relevant. However they argue that it needs to be reworked to respond to the new challenges to international security represented by the end of the Cold War and the impact of terrorism. With an interdisciplinary and transatlantic approach, this volume provides a dialogue between theological, political, military and public actors. By articulating what a reconstituted Just War tradition might mean in practice, it also aims to assist policy-makers in dealing with the ethical dilemmas of war.

Table of Contents

Notes on contributors	p. viii
Foreword	p. xi
Acknowledgements	p. xvii
Introduction	p. 1
A framework for ethical decision making: state and civil society-based approaches	p. 17
The development of just war thinking in the post-Cold War world: an American perspective	p. 19
Is there a European approach to war?	p. 37
Between development and doubt: the recent career of just war doctrine in British churches	p. 55
Just war thinking in recent American religious debate over military force	p. 76
Responding justly to new threats	p. 99
Humanitarian intervention	p. 101
Terrorism	p. 118
Rogue regimes, WMD and hyper-terrorism: Augustine and Aquinas meet Chemical Ali	p. 136
Moral versus legal imperatives	p. 157
Fighting wars justly	p. 177
The ethics of 'effects-based' warfare: the crowding out of jus in bello?	p. 179
The just conduct of war against radical Islamic terror and insurgencies	p. 201
Securing peace justly	p. 217
Justice after war and the international common good	p. 219
Conditions for jus in pace in the face of the future	p. 236
From just war to just peace	p. 255
Concluding reflections	p. 275
A US political perspective	p. 277
A British political perspective	p. 286
An American military ethicist's perspective	p. 295
A British theological perspective	p. 304
Bibliography	p. 313
Index	p. 323
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