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(0)Eric Patterson
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"Just War Thinking reconsiders the intersection between morality and pragmatics in foreign policy and modern warfare. The book criticizes the quasi-pacifism of most formal just war scholarship, reconceptualizes a minimal, realistic "just war thinking" framework for exploring foreign and military policy options, and evaluates the usefulness of this approach by investigating contemporary cases such as the war on terrorism in Afghanistan and Iraq, the...
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"The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have focused new attention on a perennial problem: how to end wars well. What ethical considerations should guide war's settlement and its aftermath? In cases of protracted conflicts, recurring war, failed or failing states, or genocide and war crimes, is there a framework for establishing an enduring peace that is pragmatic and moral?
Ethics Beyond War's End provides answers to these questions from the just war...