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- catalog abstract ""When is the use of military force by a nation morally justified? Why has the long accepted moral requirement to protect civilians from intentional attack eroded in recent years? How can the tendency toward unrestrained warfare between parties with major cultural differences be controlled? In this book, James Turner Johnson refocuses the moral analysis of war on the real problems of today's armed conflicts. Moral debates about nuclear war and annihilation fail to address the problems of actual contemporary uses of military force, Johnson argues. We must address the type of armed conflict that has emerged at the end of the twentieth century: local wars - often inflamed by historical, ethnic, or religious animosities and usually fought with conventional weapons that can be carried by individual fighters."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Morality and contemporary warfare".
- catalog contributor b11331289.
- catalog created "c1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "c1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1999.".
- catalog description ""When is the use of military force by a nation morally justified? Why has the long accepted moral requirement to protect civilians from intentional attack eroded in recent years? How can the tendency toward unrestrained warfare between parties with major cultural differences be controlled? In this book, James Turner Johnson refocuses the moral analysis of war on the real problems of today's armed conflicts. Moral debates about nuclear war and annihilation fail to address the problems of actual contemporary uses of military force, Johnson argues. We must address the type of armed conflict that has emerged at the end of the twentieth century: local wars - often inflamed by historical, ethnic, or religious animosities and usually fought with conventional weapons that can be carried by individual fighters."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-255) and index.".
- catalog description "Politics, power, and the international order -- Conditions for just resort to armed force: just cause, competent authority, and right intention in historical and contemporary context -- The question of intervention -- War against noncombatants -- Conflicts inflamed by cultural difference -- War crimes and reconciliation after conflict -- Conclusion: reshaping and affirming a consensus on the purposes and limits of war.".
- catalog extent "ix, 259 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0300078374 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "c1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New Haven : Yale University Press,".
- catalog subject "172/.42 21".
- catalog subject "Low-intensity conflicts (Military science)".
- catalog subject "U21.2 .J6324 1999".
- catalog subject "War Moral and ethical aspects.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Politics, power, and the international order -- Conditions for just resort to armed force: just cause, competent authority, and right intention in historical and contemporary context -- The question of intervention -- War against noncombatants -- Conflicts inflamed by cultural difference -- War crimes and reconciliation after conflict -- Conclusion: reshaping and affirming a consensus on the purposes and limits of war.".
- catalog title "Morality & contemporary warfare / James Turner Johnson.".
- catalog title "Morality and contemporary warfare".
- catalog type "text".