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Author Brunstetter, Daniel R., author.

Title Just and unjust uses of limited force : a moral argument with contemporary illustrations / Daniel R. Brunstetter
Edition First edition
Published Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2021
©2021

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 286 pages)
Contents 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
Summary '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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 14, 2021)
Subject Limited war.
Just war doctrine.
Just war doctrine
Limited war
Form Electronic book
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