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Just War Thinkers: From Cicero to the 21st Century , Daniel R. Brunstetter and Cian O'Driscoll , eds. (Abingdon, U.K. : Routledge , 2018), 282 pp., $155 cloth, $44.95 paper.
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Just War Thinkers provides a big picture look at the development of thinking about the ethics of war by means of a series of smaller pictures--contextualized "snapshots," as the editors term them--of individuals whose work has contributed to the development of the just war tradition in some way. Each chapter presents the reader with an overview of a thinker--a total of nineteen across the centuries--who has made some contribution to our body of just war thought. In addition, the chapters also take care to contextualize each just war thinker within his or her time period and personal history. Contributors consider not only their subject's conceptual or philosophical development but also their controversies and legacies. Helpfully, the authors also engage with other chapters in the book as well as with the broader just war tradition, which gives the reader a sense of each thinker's place within the intellectual history of the just war tradition.
In terms of scope, the individuals covered in this volume include, for the most part, names that are well-known to students of the ethics of war, beginning with...