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This book provides a richly nuanced examination of the moral justifications democracies often invoke to wage war. The author argues that democratic principles can be both fertile and toxic ground for the project of limiting war's violence. Only by learning to view war as limited by our democratic values - rather than as a tool for promoting them - can we hope to arrest the slide toward the borderless, seemingly endless democratic 'holy wars' and campaigns of remote killings we are witnessing today, and to stop permanently the use of torture and secret law. The author shows how our democratic values, understood incautiously and incorrectly, can actually undermine the goal of limiting war. He helps us better understand why we are tempted to believe that collective violence in the name of politics can be legitimate when individual violence is not. In doing so, he offers a bold new account of democratic agency that acknowledges the need for national defense and the promotion of liberty abroad while limiting the temptations of military intervention. The author demonstrates why we must address concerns about the means of waging war - including remote war and surveillance - and why we must create institutions to safeguard some nondemocratic values, such as dignity and martial honor, from the threat of democratic politics. This book reveals why understanding democracy in terms of political agency, not institutional process, is crucial to limiting when and how democracies use violence.

DEMOCRACY --- WAR--MORAL AND ETHICAL ASPECTS

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Social ethics --- Polemology --- JUST WAR DOCTRINE --- WAR--MORAL AND ETHICAL ASPECTS --- War --- Armed conflict (War) --- Conflict, Armed (War) --- Fighting --- Hostilities --- Wars --- International relations --- Military art and science --- Peace

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"The Ethics of War is a much-needed anthology addressing issues both timely and age-old about the nature of war. When is recourse to arms morally justifiable? What moral constraints should apply to military conduct? How can a lasting peace be achieved? Over the past two and a half millennia a substantive body of ethical reflection has emerged in response to these and similar questions. This volume offers a collection of texts by ancient, medieval, and modern thinkers." "Never before have such seminal texts on the ethics of war been gathered together in a single volume. The Ethics of War is an indispensable resource for philosophers, students, and general readers alike."--Jacket.

War --- Military ethics. --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Military ethics --- War and morals --- Ethics --- Moral and ethical aspects --- War - Moral and ethical aspects.

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War (International law) --- War --- History. --- History --- Moral and ethical aspects --- -War --- -Armed conflict (War) --- Conflict, Armed (War) --- Fighting --- Hostilities --- Wars --- International relations --- Military art and science --- Peace --- -Moral and ethical aspects --- -History --- Armed conflict (War) --- 20th century --- War - History - 20th century. --- War - Moral and ethical aspects - History. --- War (International law) - History. --- War - Moral and ethical aspects - History - 20th century.

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Just war doctrine. --- War --- Guerre juste --- Guerre --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Aspect moral --- Just war doctrine --- Moral and ethical aspects --- War and morals --- Jus ad bellum --- War (Philosophy) --- Religious aspects --- War - Moral and ethical aspects