Just War Thinkers Revisited: Heretics, Humanists and Radicals

This book comprises essays that focus on a range of thinkers who challenge the boundaries of the just war tradition.

The ethics of war scholarship has become a rigid and highly disciplined activity, closely associated with a very particular canon of thinkers. This volume moves beyond this by presenting thinkers not typically regarded as part of that canon but who have interesting and potentially important things to say about the ethics of war. The book presents 20 profile essays on an eclect...