Contemporary Just War - 9781138043664

Taylor & Francis

Contemporary Just WarTheory and Practice\nAuthor(s): Tamar Meisels\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138043664, 978-1138043664\nSynopsis\nThis book offers a renewed defense of traditional just war theory and considers its application to certain contemporary cases, particularly in the Middle East. \n\nThe first part of the book addresses and responds to the central theoretical criticisms levelled at traditional just war theory. It offers a detailed defense of civilian immunity, the moral equality of soldiers and the related dichotomy between jus ad bellum and jus in bello, and argues that these principles taken together amount to a morally coherent ethics of war. In this sense this project is traditional (or \""orthodox\""). In another sense, however, it is highly relevant to the modern world. While the first part of the book defends the just war tradition against its revisionist critics, the second part applies it t.