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Just War Theory Studies in Moral Philosophy Series Editor Thom Brooks (Durham University) Editorial Board Chrisoula Andreou (University of Utah) Mark Bevir (University of California, Berkeley) Clare Chambers (University of Cambridge) Fabian Freyenhagen (University of Essex) Tim Mulgan (University of St Andrews) Ian Shapiro (Yale University) VOLUME 4 The titles published in this series are listed at brill.com/simp Just War Theory Edited by Thom Brooks LEIDEN • BOSTON 2013 The essays have all appeared in the Journal of Moral Philosophy. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Just war theory / Edited by Thom Brooks. p. cm. -- (Studies in moral philosophy, ISSN 2211-2014 ; volume 4) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-90-04-22850-4 (hardback : alk. paper) -- ISBN 978-90-04-24202-9 (e-book) 1. Just war doctrine. 2. War--Moral and ethical aspects. I. Brooks, Thom. 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CONTENTS Notes on Previous Publications ...........................................................................vii List of Contributors ..................................................................................................ix Introduction ................................................................................................................1 Thom Brooks PART I JUST WAR AND UNJUST WAR The Permissibility of Aiding and Abetting Unjust Wars ..............................11 Saba Barzargan Dividing Harm .........................................................................................................29 Gerhard Øverland Consistency in the Armed Enforcement of Human Rights: A Moral Necessity? ...........................................................................................49 Ned Dobos PART II JUST WAR AND SELF-DEFENSE Conditional Threats ...............................................................................................69 Gerhard Øverland Can Wars Be Fought Justly? The Necessity Condition Put to the Test ....................................................................................................81 Daniel Statman PART III INNOCENT NON-COMBATANTS AND SELF-DEFENSE Self-Defence among Innocent People .............................................................101 Gerhard Øverland Killing in War and Moral Equality ....................................................................125 Stephen R. Shalom vi contents Self-Defence and the Principle of Non-Combatant Immunity ................143 Helen Frowe Partiality and Weighing Harm to Non-Combatants ....................................161 David Lefkowitz PART IV JUST WAR THEORY AND TERRORISM Defining Terrorism for Public Policy Purposes: The Group– Target Definition .............................................................................................183 Eric Reitan Bibliography ...........................................................................................................211 Index .........................................................................................................................221 NOTES ON PREVIOUS PUBLICATIONS Saba Bazargan, ‘The Permissibility of Aiding and Abetting Unjust Wars’, Journal of Moral Philosophy 8(4) (2011): 513–29. Ned Dobos, ‘Consistence in the Armed Enforcement of Human Rights: A Moral Necessity?’ Journal of Moral Philosophy 8(1) (2011): 92–109. Helen Frowe, ‘Self-Defence and the Principle of Non-Combatant Immunity’, Journal of Moral Philosophy 8(4) (2011): 530–46. David Lefkowitz, ‘Partiality and Weighing Harm to Non-Combatants’, Journal of Moral Philosophy 6(3) (2009): 298–316. Gerhard Øverland, ‘Conditional Threats’, Journal of Moral Philosophy 7(3) (2010): 334–45. Gerhard Øverland, ‘Dividing Harm’, Journal of Moral Philosophy 8(4) (2011): 547–66. Gerhard Øverland, ‘Self-Defence among Innocent People’, Journal of Moral Philosophy 2(2) (2005): 127–46. Eric Reitan, ‘Defining Terrorism for Public Policy Purposes: The Group– Target Definition’, Journal of Moral Philosophy 7(2) (2010): 253–78. Stephen R. Shalom, ‘Killing in War and Moral Equality’, Journal of Moral Philosophy 8(4) (2011): 495–512. Daniel Statman, ‘Can Wars Be Fought Justly? The Necessity Condition Put to the Test’, 8(3) (2011): 435–51. LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS Saba Bazargan is a professor at the University of California at San Diego. Thom Brooks is Reader in Law at Durham University. He is editor and founder of the Journal of Moral Philosophy. Ned Dobos is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, University of Melbourne and Charles Sturt University. Helen Frowe is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Kent at Canterbury. David Lefkowitz is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Richmond. Gerhard Øverland is a Project Leader at the Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature at the University of Oslo. Eric Reitan is Professor of Philosophy at Oklahoma State University. Stephen R. Shalom is Professor of Political Science at the William Paterson University of New Jersey. Daniel Statman is a professor at the University of Haifa.