Just and Unjust Uses of Limited Force

Daniel Brunstetter is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine. Daniel's work on just war thinking explores the history of the just war tradition and critically examines contemporary debates about the use of force. His works is published in Ethics & International Affairs, Journal of Military Ethics, Political Studies, Review of International Studies, International Journal of Human Rights, Peace Review and elsewhere. He is the author of Tensions of Modernity: Las Casas and His Legacy in the French Enlightenment (Routledge, 2012), and co-editor of two edited volumes that cover a variety of themes related to the ethics of war: The Ethics of War and Peace Revisited: Moral Challenges in an Era of Contested and Fragmented Sovereignty (Georgetown University Press, 2018) and Just War Thinkers: From Cicero to the 21st Century (Routledge, 2017).

• Introduction 1: Blurring the Lines: Law Enforcement, Fractured Order, and Warlike Force 2: Limited Force and the Triumph, Crisis, and Schism of Just War Thinking 3: Imagining Jus Post Vim 4: Jus Ad Vim 5: The Probability of Escalation Principle 6: Jus In Vi 7: Jus Post Vim Revisited Conclusion

This book is likely to be added to the canon of major books in just war theory. The argument it makes has the potential to advance the field by sparking a conversation about one of the most morally worrisome developments in contemporary armed conflict, namely, the spread of limited force...I expect this book to greatly advance the debate about the ethics of limited force. This is not a book that provides easy answers. It invites the reader to engage with the very real practical dilemmas decision-makers face vis-a-vis limited force.