How We Fight

Helen Frowe is Professor of Practical Philosophy and Wallenberg Academy Fellow at Stockholm University, where she directs the Stockholm Centre for the Ethics of War and Peace.Gerald Lang is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Leeds. He held previous appointments in Reading and Oxford. He has very wide-ranging interests in moral and political philosophy.

• Introduction ; 1. Varieties of Contingent Pacifism in War ; 2. Punitive War ; 3. Why Not Forfeiture? ; 4. Self-Defence, Just War, and a Reasonable Prospect of Success ; 5. Self-Defense, Resistance, and Suicide: The Taliban Women ; 6. Are Justified Aggressors a Threat to the Rights Theory of Self-Defence? ; 7. Self-Defense Against Justified Threateners ; 8. Just War Theory, Intentions, and the Deliberative Perspective Objection ; 9. Risking and Protecting Lives: Soldiers and Opposing Civilians ; 10. Non-Combatant Liability in War ; Index

The collection meaningfully furthers many central debates in just war literature, including debates about, pacifism, punitive wars, the doctrine of double effect, rights theory, forfeiture theory, relationship between liability and justification, non-combatant status, reasonable chance of success and others. The advances made on these issues make this volume well worthwhile for a scholar already immersed in the field. In addition, since most of the essays also provide a significant background to the issues at hand and ground these discussions in more familiar foundational issues, the volume should be of interest more generally as well.