Ethics of War and Peace Revisited

Daniel R. Brunstetter is associate professor of political science at the University of California-Irvine and author of Tensions of Modernity: Las Casas and His Legacy in the French Enlightenment. Jean-Vincent Holeindre is professor of political science at University of Poitiers and Scientific Director of Institut de Recherche Strategique de l'Ecole Militaire (IRSEM). He is the author of La ruse et la force: Une autre histoire de la strategie.

• Introduction: The Ethics of War and Peace in a World of Contested and Fragmented SovereigntyDaniel R. Brunstetter and Jean-Vincent Holeindre Part I. What Frames Decisions to Intervene?1. Assessing (and Learning from) the Record of Humanitarian Intervention in the Post-Cold War EraAidan Hehir 2. Recognition Theory in Humanitarian InterventionThomas Lindemann and Alex Giacomelli 3. The Moral Justification for Military InterventionNigel Biggar 4. Making the World Safe for Preventive Force: South Korea and the US PrecedentKerstin Fisk and Jennifer M. Ramos 5. France and the American Drone Precedent: A Consequentialist Response to a Polemical CritiqueJean-Baptiste Jeangene VilmerPart II. Who Does the Fighting? 6. Pragmatism, the Just War Tradition, and an Ethical Approach to Private Military and Security CompaniesDeborah Avant 7. A Certain Idea of Grandeur: French Military Interventionism and Postcolonial ResponsibilityJean-Vincent Holeindre 8. The Signs of the Times: Classical Just War Thinking and Timing, and the Struggle Against JihadistsJohn Kelsay 9. Balancing Security, Risk, and Uncertainty in a World of Contested and Fragmented SovereigntyJohn R. Emery Part III. Do We Need New Ethical Frameworks? 10. Drones, Honor, and Fragmented Sovereignty: The Impact of New and Emerging Technology on the Warrior's CodeShannon E. French, Victoria Sisk, and Caroline Bass 11. The Purview of State-Sponsored Violence: Law Enforcement, Just War, and the Ethics of Limited ForceDaniel R. Brunstetter 12. Contesting Sovereignty: Human Security as a New Justification for War?Frederic Ramel Part IV. Is Victory Really Enough?13. Jus Post Bellum, Fractured Sovereignty, and the Limits of Postwar RehabilitationBrian Orend 14. After Disneyland: The (Hollow) Victory of Just WarCian O'Driscoll Conclusion: Toward the Future of the Ethics of War and PeaceDaniel R. Brunstetter and Jean-Vincent Holeindre List of Contributors Index

A valuable addition to any course or study on the ethics of war as a complement to or extension of classical works in the field. The collection nicely balances analysis with concrete examples and situations, a virtue of many of its individual chapters as well as its overall organization.