Just War Theory

233 Pages·2013·2.171 MB·English

by  Thom Brooks

Just War Theory
Studies in Moral Philosophy
Series Editor
Thom Brooks (Durham University)
Editorial Board
Chrisoula Andreou (University of Utah)
Mark Bevir (University of California, Berkeley)
Clare Chambers (University of Cambridge)
Fabian Freyenhagen (University of Essex)
Tim Mulgan (University of St Andrews)
Ian Shapiro (Yale University)
VOLUME 4
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Just War Theory
Edited by
Thom Brooks
LEIDEN • BOSTON
2013
The essays have all appeared in the Journal of Moral Philosophy.
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Just war theory / Edited by Thom Brooks.
  p. cm. -- (Studies in moral philosophy, ISSN 2211-2014 ; volume 4)
 Includes bibliographical references and index.
 ISBN 978-90-04-22850-4 (hardback : alk. paper) -- ISBN 978-90-04-24202-9 (e-book) 1. Just war
doctrine. 2. War--Moral and ethical aspects. I. Brooks, Thom.
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CONTENTS
Notes on Previous Publications ...........................................................................vii
List of Contributors ..................................................................................................ix
Introduction ................................................................................................................1
Thom Brooks
PART I
JUST WAR AND UNJUST WAR
The Permissibility of Aiding and Abetting Unjust Wars ..............................11
Saba Barzargan
Dividing Harm .........................................................................................................29
Gerhard Øverland
Consistency in the Armed Enforcement of Human Rights:
A Moral Necessity? ...........................................................................................49
Ned Dobos
PART II
JUST WAR AND SELF-DEFENSE
Conditional Threats ...............................................................................................69
Gerhard Øverland
Can Wars Be Fought Justly? The Necessity Condition
Put to the Test ....................................................................................................81
Daniel Statman
PART III
INNOCENT NON-COMBATANTS AND SELF-DEFENSE
Self-Defence among Innocent People .............................................................101
Gerhard Øverland
Killing in War and Moral Equality ....................................................................125
Stephen R. Shalom
vi contents
Self-Defence and the Principle of Non-Combatant Immunity ................143
Helen Frowe
Partiality and Weighing Harm to Non-Combatants ....................................161
David Lefkowitz
PART IV
JUST WAR THEORY AND TERRORISM
Defining Terrorism for Public Policy Purposes: The Group–
Target Definition .............................................................................................183
Eric Reitan
Bibliography ...........................................................................................................211
Index .........................................................................................................................221
NOTES ON PREVIOUS PUBLICATIONS
Saba Bazargan, ‘The Permissibility of Aiding and Abetting Unjust Wars’,
Journal of Moral Philosophy 8(4) (2011): 513–29.
Ned Dobos, ‘Consistence in the Armed Enforcement of Human Rights:
A Moral Necessity?’ Journal of Moral Philosophy 8(1) (2011): 92–109.
Helen Frowe, ‘Self-Defence and the Principle of Non-Combatant
Immunity’, Journal of Moral Philosophy 8(4) (2011): 530–46.
David Lefkowitz, ‘Partiality and Weighing Harm to Non-Combatants’,
Journal of Moral Philosophy 6(3) (2009): 298–316.
Gerhard Øverland, ‘Conditional Threats’, Journal of Moral Philosophy 7(3)
(2010): 334–45.
Gerhard Øverland, ‘Dividing Harm’, Journal of Moral Philosophy 8(4) (2011):
547–66.
Gerhard Øverland, ‘Self-Defence among Innocent People’, Journal of Moral
Philosophy 2(2) (2005): 127–46.
Eric Reitan, ‘Defining Terrorism for Public Policy Purposes: The Group–
Target Definition’, Journal of Moral Philosophy 7(2) (2010): 253–78.
Stephen R. Shalom, ‘Killing in War and Moral Equality’, Journal of Moral
Philosophy 8(4) (2011): 495–512.
Daniel Statman, ‘Can Wars Be Fought Justly? The Necessity Condition Put
to the Test’, 8(3) (2011): 435–51.

LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
Saba Bazargan is a professor at the University of California at San Diego.
Thom Brooks is Reader in Law at Durham University. He is editor and
founder of the Journal of Moral Philosophy.
Ned Dobos is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and
Public Ethics, University of Melbourne and Charles Sturt University.
Helen Frowe is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Kent at
Canterbury.
David Lefkowitz is an associate professor of philosophy at the University
of Richmond.
Gerhard Øverland is a Project Leader at the Centre for the Study of
Mind in Nature at the University of Oslo.
Eric Reitan is Professor of Philosophy at Oklahoma State University.
Stephen R. Shalom is Professor of Political Science at the William
Paterson University of New Jersey.
Daniel Statman is a professor at the University of Haifa.