A comprehensive exploration of contemporary debates in Just War Theory, addressing moral, political, and legal issues.

Widespread cross-cultural and cross-ideological agreement on the justifiable limits of war has become an increasingly complex yet vital element of global peace

Larry May argues that the best way to understand war crimes is as crimes against humanness rather than as violations of justice. He shows that in a deeply plura

This volume brings together scholars from intellectual history, social sciences, philosophy and theology to evaluate central questions concerning political viol

The first book-length study of Aquinas's teaching on just war, its antecedents, and its reception by subsequent thinkers.