CHINESE Just War Ethics: Origin, Development & DIssent (Book); WAR'S End: Human Rights, International Order & the Ethics (Book); JUST Revolution: A Christian Ethic of Political Resistance & Social Transformation (Book)

MURPHY, James; TWISS, Sumner B.; SCHEID, Anna Floerke

This essay discusses four recent books on the Western, and one book on the classical Chinese, traditions of just war. It concentrates on the jus ad bellum moral criteria (legitimate authority, just cause, and right intention), giving attention to the centrality of the state in just war morality, to some challenges in reconceptualizing the jus ad bellum in the context of non-state agents, and to controversies over a 'presumption against war.' [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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