Risking Aggression: Toleration of Threat and Preventive War.

Generally speaking, just war theory (JWT) holds that there are two just causes for war: self‐defence and 'other‐defence'. The most common type of the latter is popularly known as 'humanitarian intervention'. There is debate, however, as to whether these can serve as just causes for preventive war. T...

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Published in:	Heythrop Journal Vol. 60; no. 6; pp. 883 - 895
Main Author:	Beard, Matthew
Format:	Article
Published:	Wiley-Blackwell Nov2019
Subjects:	Preemptive attack (Military science) Just war doctrine Aggression (Psychology) Humanitarian intervention Vitoria, Francisco de, ca. 1486-1546
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost