This book explores how and why just war tradition coalesced and how it has developed. By highlighting the just war tradition in historical perspective, this valuable study looks at contemporary implications drawn out in the context of important contemporary debates.

Introduction The Use of History for Thinking About Morality and War; Part I Two Moral Traditions on the Use of Armed Force; Chapter 1 The Just War Idea in Historical Tradition and Current Debate; Chapter 2 Just War; Chapter 3 Just War and Jihad; Chapter 4 Tracing the Contours of the Jihad of Individual Duty in Islamic Juristic Tradition; Part II Just War and International Law; Chapter 5 Grotius' Use of History and Charity in the Modern Transformation of the Just War Idea; Chapter 6 Looking Back as a Way of Going Forward; Part III Just War and Political Realism; Chapter 7 Moral Judgment in International Affairs; Chapter 8 Reinhold Niebuhr's Christian Realism and the Idea of Just War; Part IV Pressing Contemporary Problems; Chapter 9 The Idea of Defense in Historical and Contemporary Thinking about Just War; Chapter 10 Contemporary Warfare and the Challenge to Efforts at Restraint; Chapter 11 The Use of Armed Force and the Goal of Peace;