Discusses how just war theory needs to be revised to better secure and respect human rights. Warfare in the twenty-first century presents significant challenges

Discusses how just war theory needs to be revised to better secure and respect human rights.

Argues the just war tradition, rather than being a restraint on war, has expanded its scope, and criticises this trend.

This book offers a systematic critique of recent interventionist just war theories, which have made the recourse to force easier to justify. The work argues tha

Larry May argues that the best way to understand war crimes is as crimes against humanness rather than as violations of justice. He shows that in a deeply plura