Title: Origins of the Just War
Subtitle: Military Ethics and Culture in the Ancient near East
Description: A groundbreaking history of the ethics of war in the ancient Near East. *Origins of the Just War* reveals the incredible richness and complexity of ethical thought about war in the three millennia preceding the Greco-Roman period, establishing the extent to which ancient just war thought prefigured much of what we now consider to be the building blocks of the Western just war tradition.
Subjects: Theory of warfare, Just war doctrine
Places: Near East
Time periods: Ancient ages