Just and unjust use of limited force : a moral argument with contemporary illustrations /
Brunstetter, Daniel R.,author.
'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.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [259]-280) and index.
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.
'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.
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Limited war.