Professor Valerie Morkevicius offers a provocative thesis in her new book: the just war tradition has more in common historically with realist views of international relations than with the idealist views that characterize contemporary just war thought. She argues that just war thinking will be a more effective constraint on the use of force if it returns to those realist roots, rather than continuing trends toward pacifism and "liberal crusading" that dominate much modern work on just war. Morkevicius supports her thesis with careful scholarship in the Christian, Islamic, and Hindu just war traditions and persuasive arguments about the relationships among religion, power, law, and the use of force.
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