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America and the Just War Tradition examines and evaluates each of America’s major wars from a just war perspective. Using moral analysis that is anchored in the just war tradition, the contributors provide careful historical analysis evaluating individual conflicts.
Each chapter explores the causes of a particular war, the degree to which the justice of the conflict was a subject of debate at the time, and the extent to which the war measured up to traditional ad bellum and in bello criteria. Where appropriate, contributors offer post bellum considerations, insofar as justice is concerned with helping to offer a better peace and end result than what had existed prior to the conflict.
This fascinating exploration offers policy guidance for the use of force in the world today, and will be of keen interest to historians, political scientists, philosophers, and theologians, as well as policy makers and the general reading public.
Contributors: J. Daryl Charles, Darrell Cole, Timothy J. Demy, Jonathan H. Ebel, Laura Jane Gifford, Mark David Hall, Jonathan Den Hartog, Daniel Walker Howe, Kerry E. Irish, James Turner Johnson, Gregory R. Jones, Mackubin Thomas Owens, John D. Roche, and Rouven Steeves
"This fascinating exploration offers policy guidance for the use of force in the world today, and will be of keen interest to historians, political scientists, philosophers, and theologians, as well as policy makers and the general reading public." —Law and Religion Forum
Foreword by James Turner Johnson
- The Just War Tradition and America’s Wars by J. Daryl Charles and Mark David Hall
- “Fear, Honor, and Interest”: The Unjust Motivations and Outcomes of the American Revolutionary War by John D. Roche
- The War of 1812 by Jonathan Den Hartog
- James K. Polk and the War with Mexico by Daniel Walker Howe
- The Fractured Union and the Justification for War by Gregory Jones
- Just War and the Spanish-American War by Timothy J. Demy
- The Great War, the United States, and Just War Thought by Jonathan H. Ebel
- The United States and Japan in the Second World War: A Just War Perspective by Kerry E. Irish
- America’s Ambiguous “Police Action”: The Korean Conflict by Laura Jane Gifford
- Vietnam and the Just War Tradition by Mackubin Thomas Owens
- The First and Second Gulf Wars by Darrell Cole
- The War on Terror and Afghanistan by Rouven Steeves
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