Research Catalog

Title

Just war : principles and cases / by Richard J. Regan.

Author

Regan, Richard J.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, 1996.

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Description

viii, 247 pages; 22 cm

Subject

• Just war doctrine

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 1. Justifying War. Why War Needs to Be Morally Justified. The Pacifist Position. The Marxist Critique of War. God's Will as the Moral Norm of Just War. Right Reason as the Moral Norm of Just War. Just-War Theory -- 2. The Just War Decision: Legitimate Authority. The U.S. Constitution. The U.N. Charter. Article 42 and U.S. Constitutional Processes. The United Nations, Human Rights, and Military Action. The War Powers Resolution. Conclusion -- 3. The Just War Decision: Traditional Just-Cause Considerations. Defense of National Territory and International Space. Preventive Attack. Rescue of Nationals. Terrorism. Rectifying Economic Injury. Vindicating Territorial Claims. Proportionality. Last Resort. Cessation of Just Cause -- 4. The Just War Decision: Just Cause and Interventionist Wars. Intervention in Other Nations' Internal Affairs and Civil Wars. Secession and Intervention in Secessionist Wars -- 5. The Just War Decision: Right Intention -- 6. Just War Conduct.
• The Principle of Discrimination. The Principle of Proportionality. Effect of Unjust War Conduct on Just Cause. Observance of International Conventions -- 7. Nuclear Weapons and Just War Conduct. The Bipolar Cold War Context. The New Nuclear Superpower Context. The China Context. The Context of Other Nations' Nuclear Capability and the Problem of Proliferation. Nuclear Proliferation and Terrorism. World War I (1914-18) -- The Vietnam Wars (1946-75) -- The Falklands War (1982) -- Revolution and Civil War in Nicaragua (1978-90) -- The Civil War in El Salvador (1979-92) -- The Gulf War (1991) -- The Intervention in Somalia (1992-94) -- The Bosnian War (1992-95) -- Appendix 1. The United Nations Charter -- Appendix 2. The War Powers Resolution.

ISBN

• 0813208556 (cl : alk. paper)
• 0813208564 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

95046533

OCLC

• 33668147
• ocm33668147

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries