Comparative Just War Theory

Widespread cross-cultural and cross-ideological agreement on the justifiable limits of war has become an increasingly complex yet vital element of global peace and conflict policies. Luís Cordeiro-Rodrigues and Danny Singh bring together a truly international cohort of philosophers, ethicists, political scientists, criminologists, sociologists, and other scholars to address the morality of war from a comparative perspective.
While conceptions of when to enter war (jus ad bellum) and how to fight war (jus in bello) have been well researched in Western liberal contexts, non-Western philosophies have been largely excluded from debate. This volume seeks to correct that imbalance by addressing concrete examples alongside concepts of Confucian Yi/Rightness, Ahimsa, feminism, class struggles, Ubuntu, anarchism, pacifism, Buddhism, Islam, Jihad, among others.
Comparative Just War Theory provides a global conceptual framework to deal with the morality of war in our modern world. With fresh insights into how the normative problems that arise from just war can be addressed, the book will be a valuable resource for a wide variety of students, scholars, and policymakers.

Luis Cordeiro-Rodrigues holds a PhD from the University of York and is an associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy, Yuelu Academy, Hunan University, China. He has published widely on multiculturalism, just war theory and animals. His main publications are two edited books Philosophies of Multiculturalism: Beyond Liberalism (Routledge, 2017), Animals, Race and Multiculturalism (Palgrave) and articles on Critical Studies on Terrorism, Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Theoria and Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics. Danny Singh is Senior Lecturer in Criminology & Sociology at Teesside University. He has previously taught at the University of York's Department of Politics and at Leeds Beckett University. He has published on interventions in war-torn states leading to police and judicial reform and anti-corruption. These journals include: Conflict, Security & Development, The Police Journal, Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, Journal of Developing Societies, Crime, Law and Social Change and Policy Studies.He is currently working on a monograph titled, Investigating Corruption in the Afghan Police Force: Instability and insecurity in post-conflict societies in contract with Bristol University Press/Policy Press.

Series Editors' Foreword: Contemporary Social-Political Philosophy and Comparative Just War Theory Laurie Shrage and Naomi Zack Foreword: Ethics and War in a Globalized World Alex J. Bellamy Introduction: International and Comparative Perspectives to Just War Theory Danny Singh and Luís Cordeiro-Rodrigues 1. Anarchism and Just War Theory Nathan Jun 2. "The Only Justifiable War": The Marxist Strategies of Lenin, Trotsky, and Blanco Andrew Ryder 3. A Pacifist Critique of Just War Theory Richard Jackson 4. Undertaking Critical Legal Theory to Examine Just War Intervention: A Smokescreen for Political Ambitions Danny Singh 5. An Examination of Nigerian, Sri Lankan, and Guatemalan Civil Wars in Light of the Law of Armed Conflict Jonathan O. Chimakonam and Victor C. A. Nweke 6. African Feminists' Critique of Just Wars and the Reality of African Women in Wars Olajumoke M. Akiode 7. Feminist Care Political Theory and Contemporary Just War Theory Heleana Theixos 8. An African Theory of Just Causes for War Thaddeus Metz 9. The Classical Confucian Ideas of Jus ad Bellum Cao Qin 10. Just War and the Indian Tradition: Arguments from the Battlefield Shyam Ranganathan 11. The Islamic War Ethic in Theory and Practice Davis Brown 12. Just War Thinking in Chinese Buddhism Dr. Tong Sau Lin and Dr. King-Fai Tam