Military Necessity and Just War Statecraft

The Principle of National Security Stewardship
Herausgeber: Patterson, Eric; Livecche, Marc

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Produktbeschreibung

This book analyses the concept of military necessity and just war thinking, and argues that it should be seen as a vital moral principle for leaders.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juni 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 295g
• ISBN-13: 9781032487120
• ISBN-10: 1032487127
• Artikelnr.: 74064863

Autorenporträt

Eric Patterson is scholar-at-large and former dean of the School of Government at Regent University. He is author or editor of 20 books, including, most recently, Just War and Christianity: A Concise Introduction (2023) and Just American Wars (2019). Marc LiVecche is the McDonald Distinguished Scholar of Ethics, War, and Public Life at Providence: A Journal of Christianity & American Foreign Policy and serves as a non-resident research fellow at the College of Leadership and Ethics in the U.S. Naval War College. He is author of The Good Kill: Just War and Moral Injury (2021).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Returning Military Necessity to the Jus in Bello 2. Natural Law and the
Just War Ethic: Reaffirming Common Moral Traditions 3. Military Necessity
as Distinct Jus in Bello Principle: A Classical Just War Perspective 4.
What is Military Necessity? A Defense of the Marginal Interpretation 5.
Inevitable and Indispensable: A conceptual approach to Necessity in War and
Conflict 6. Military Necessity, Catholic Thinking, and the Great Wars 7.
Necessity, Convenience, and Point of View: Military Necessity in Just War
8. Military Necessity and Realism: Comparing Permission and Limitation in
Christian, Islamic, and Hindu Thought 9. The Military Necessity of Ethics
10. Operation Wrath of God: Illegal but Necessary 11. Military Necessity in
the Gray Zone 12. Military Necessity as Moral Imperative: Just War and
Hiroshima 13. Military Necessity: The Road Ahead