Table of Contents

Just War Theory and the Challenges It Faces.- Some Theoretical Background.- A Postmodern View of Just War.- From Rights to Realism: Incoherence in Walzer's Conception of Jus in Bello.- A Realist Response to Walzer's Just and Unjust Wars.- Intervention.- Walzer and Rawls on Just Wars and Humanitarian Interventions.- Humanitarian Intervention and Relational Sovereignty.- Just War Theory Post 9/11: Perfect Terrorism and Superpower Defense.- Preventive Intervention.- Terrorism.- Law, Just War, and the International Fight Against Terrorism: Is It War?.- Determining Moral Rectitude in Thwarting Suicide Terrorist Attacks: Moral Terra Incognita.- Terrorism and the Ethics of War.- The War Against Terrorism and the “War“ Against Terrorism.- Terrorism and Universal Jurisdiction.- Torture.- Humanity, Prisoners of War, and Torture.- Assessing the Prohibition Against Torture.- Liberalism, Torture, and the Ticking Bomb.- Torture and Self-Defense.- War Rape's Challenge to Just War Theory.- Prisons, POW Camps, and Interrogation Centers: Reflections on the Juridic Status of Detainees.- The Impact of Technology.- Non-Combatant Immunity in an Age of High Tech Warfare.