Just War Theory and Likelihood of Success : Prudential Judgement, Geopolitics and Just Statecraft (Hardcover)

1. Introduction: Making Sense of “Likelihood of Success” in the Just War Tradition??Part I: Likelihood of Success: Concept and Controversy??2. Worse Things Than Losing: Underdogs Defining Likelihood of Success??3. Likelihood of Success, the Science of War, and the False Security of a Technical Principle??4. Just War and Likelihood of Success: Wars of Necessity vs. Wars of Choice??5. What Should We Hope For? In Search of Reasonable Definitions of Success??6. From Likelihood of Success to Likely Consequences??7. Mixed Motives and the Likelihood of Success??8. A Reasonable Chance of Success and the (Low) Probability of Meeting All Just War Theory Precepts??9. Humanitarianism & Tranquilitas Ordinas in Jus Post Bellum??Part II: Likelihood of Success: Applications and Cases??10. When You Can’t Afford to Miss: Likelihood of Success and Discrimination in Cyberwarfare??11. Atomic Signaling: Exploring Likelihood of Success and Military Necessity through the Bargaining Model of War??12. Success in Battle?Failure in War??13. Just War Moral Reasoning, Golden-Rule Ethics, and the Politics of Rescue: Reassessing “Reasonable Chance of Success” in the Light of Geopolitical Evil,??14. Strategic Special Operations and the Likelihood of Success??15. Conclusion: David and Goliath

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