America and the Just War Tradition: A History of U.S. Conflicts

America and the Just War Tradition examines and evaluates each of America's major wars from a just war perspective, providing careful historical analysis and post-bellum considerations to offer policy guidance for the use of force.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 338 pages
Publication date: 30 March 2019
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press

America and the Just War Tradition is a comprehensive examination and evaluation of every major war in American history, approached from a just war perspective. The contributors, drawing upon moral analysis rooted in the just war tradition, offer meticulous historical analysis that assesses individual conflicts.

In each chapter, the authors delve into the origins of a particular war, examine the extent to which the justice of the conflict was debated at the time, and assess whether the war met traditional ad bellum and in bello criteria. Where relevant, they also provide post-bellum considerations, focusing on justice as a means to achieve a more peaceful and favorable outcome than what existed before the conflict.

This captivating exploration provides valuable policy guidance for the use of force in the world today, and will be of immense interest to historians, political scientists, philosophers, theologians, policy makers, and the general reading public. The contributors to this work include 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.

Weight: 496g
Dimension: 153 x 228 x 19 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780268105266