Cécile Fabre is currently Professor of Political Philosophy at Oxford University, and Fellow in Philosophy at Lincoln College. She has published extensively on rights, justice, and war--her latest monograph, Cosmopolitan War, came out with OUP in 2012. ; Seth Lazar is a continuing research fellow at the School of Philosophy in the Research School of Social Sciences, and the Australian National university. He writes on war and killing, and has published in the premier international journals in moral and political philosophy.

• Acknowledgements ; 1. Introduction ; 2. National Defence, Self-Defence, and the Problem of Political Aggression ; 3. Understanding the Political Defensive Privilege ; 4. The Myth of National Self-Defence ; 5. Cosmopolitanism and Wars of Self-Defence ; 6. What Rights may be Defended by Means of War? ; 7. Distributive Justice, Human Rights, and Territorial Integrity: A Contractarian Account of the Crime of Aggression ; 8. Collective Self-Determination, Institutions of Justice, and Wars of National Defence ; 9. Territorial Rights and National Defence ; 10. Democracy, Defence, and the Threat of Intervention ; Index

The contributors are also a valuable mix of established writers on the ethics of war, and those providing perspectives from related but distinct disciplines or areas of philosophy