When is it right to go to war? The most persuasive answer to this question has always been 'in self-defense'. In a penetrating new analysis, bringing together m

The book examines the complex and contested moral and legal issues of preventive warfare.

With the ending of the strategic certainties of the Cold War, the need for moral clarity over when, where and how to start, conduct and conclude war has never b

The first major philosophical treatment of contingent pacifism, offering an account of pacifism from the just war tradition.

Pacifism is popular. Many hold that war is unnecessary, since peaceful means of resolving conflict are always available, if only we had the will to look for the