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Just War Principles and Cases

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ISBN-10: 0813208564

ISBN-13: 9780813208565

Edition: 1996

Authors: Richard J. Regan

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List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Catholic University of America Press
Publication date: 8/1/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 247
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Preface
Justifying War
Why War Needs to Be Morally Justified
The Pacifist Position
The Marxist Critique of War
God's Will as the Moral Norm of Just War
Right Reason as the Moral Norm of Just War
Just-War Theory
The Just War Decision: Legitimate Authority
The U.S. Constitution
The U.N. Charter
Article 42 and U.S. Constitutional Processes
The United Nations, Human Rights, and Military Action
The War Powers Resolution
Conclusion
The Just War Decision: Traditional Just-Cause Considerations
Defense of National Territory and International Space
Preventive Attack
Rescue of Nationals
Terrorism
Rectifying Economic Injury
Vindicating Territorial Claims
Proportionality
Last Resort
Cessation of Just Cause
The Just War Decision: Just Cause and Interventionist Wars
Intervention in Other Nations' Internal Affairs and Civil Wars
Secession and Intervention in Secessionist Wars
The Just War Decision: Right Intention
Just War Conduct
The Principle of Discrimination
The Principle of Proportionality
Effect of Unjust War Conduct on Just Cause
Observance of International Conventions
Nuclear Weapons and Just War Conduct
The Bipolar Cold War Context
The New Nuclear Superpower Context
The China Context
The Context of Other Nations' Nuclear Capability and the Problem of Proliferation
Nuclear Proliferation and Terrorism
World War I (1914-18)
The Vietnam Wars (1946-75)
The Falklands War (1982)
Revolution and Civil War in Nicaragua (1978-90)
The Civil War in El Salvador (1979-92)
The Gulf War (1991)
The Intervention in Somalia (1992-94)
The Bosnian War (1992-95)
The United Nations Charter
The War Powers Resolution
Selected Bibliography
Index