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Article: Just War Thinking: Morality and Pragmatism in the Struggle Against Contemporary Threats.
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- Parameters
- Article date:
- September 22, 2008
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Just War Thinking: Morality and Pragmatism in the Struggle Against Contemporary Threats. By Eric Patterson. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2007.140 pages. $50.00.
Eric Patterson's small and eminently readable volume can easily serve as a digestible short introduction to the history and major components of the Just War tradition. His approach is especially helpful as a result of his concern with the changing nature of conflict in the contemporary environment. Because much of the tradition of Just War in recent centuries (at least since the Peace of Westphalia in 1648) reflects a particular arrangement of international affairs focused on sovereign states, the modern ...
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