Justice, Intervention, and Force in International Relations: Reassessing Just War Theory in the 21st Century

This book analyses the problems of current just war theory, and offers a more stable justificatory framework for non-intervention in international relations.

The primary purpose of just war theory is to provide a language and a framework by which decision makers and citizens can organize and articulate arguments about the justice of particular wars. Given that the majority of conflicts that threaten human security are now intra-state conflicts, just war theory is often called on to make jud...