The Price of Peace
Just War in the Twenty-First Century

A re-examination of the Just War tradition in the context of the twenty-first century.

Charles Reed (Edited by), David Ryall (Edited by), Richard Dannatt (Foreword by)

9780521860512, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 15 February 2007

360 pages
23.5 x 15.8 x 2.5 cm, 0.689 kg

'The Price of Peace … makes a distinctive contribution, exploring the variety of views among British and American Catholic and Protestant Christians.' Survival

Lively political and public debates on war and morality have been a feature of the post-Cold War world. The Price of Peace argues that a re-examination of the just war tradition is therefore required. The authors suggest that despite fluctuations and transformations in international politics, the just war tradition continues to be relevant. However they argue that it needs to be reworked to respond to the new challenges to international security represented by the end of the Cold War and the impact of terrorism. With an interdisciplinary and transatlantic approach, this volume provides a dialogue between theological, political, military and public actors. By articulating what a reconstituted just war tradition might mean in practice, it also aims to assist policy-makers and citizens in dealing with the ethical dilemmas of war.

Foreword Richard Dannatt
1. Introduction Charles Reed and David Ryall
Part I. A Framework for Ethical Decision Making: State and Civil Society-Based Approaches: 2. The development of just war thinking in the post-Cold War world: an American perspective George Weigel
3. Is there a European approach to war? William Wallace
4. Between development and doubt: the recent career of just war doctrine in British churches Nigel Biggar
5. Just war thinking in recent American religious debate over military force James Turner Johnson
Part II. Responding Justly to New Threats: 6. Humanitarian intervention David Fisher
7. Terrorism Jean Bethke Elshtain
8. Rogue regimes, WMD and hyper-terrorism: Augustine and Aquinas meet Chemical Ali Paul Schulte
9. Moral versus legal imperatives Frank Berman
Part III. Fighting Wars Justly: 10. The ethics of 'effects-based' warfare: the crowding out of jus in bello? Paul Cornish
11. The just conduct of war against radical Islamic terror and insurgencies Terrence K. Kelly
Part IV. Securing Peace Justly: 12. Justice after war and the international common good John Langan
13. Conditions for jus in pace in the face of the future Gwyn Prins
14. From just war to just peace Mary Kaldor
Part V. Concluding Reflections: 15. A US political perspective Michael O. Wheeler
16. A British political perspective Michael Quinlan
17. An American military ethicist's perspective Shannon E. French
18. A British theological perspective Richard Harries.

Subject Areas: International humanitarian law [LBBS], Theory of warfare & military science [JWA], International relations [JPS], Christian theology [HRCM], Social & political philosophy [HPS], Peace studies & conflict resolution [GTJ]