Open AccessMORALITY AND WAR: CAN WAR BE JUST IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY?
Author(s) -
Erica Leinmiller
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
scientia militaria
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2309-9682
pISSN - 2224-0020
DOI - 10.5787/40-2-1004
Subject(s) - morality , just war theory , spanish civil war , wage , positive economics , political science , law , sociology , economics
While contemporary wars are trending away from conventional methods and governments are faced with increasingly difficult decisions about how to wage war, Fisher declares nonetheless that the just war tradition continues to offer a valid standard for determining the moral justification of acts of war. Fisher declares the aim of his book to be –