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Part I. The choice whether to use military force

The decision to use military force in classical just war thinking / Gregory M. Reichberg

The decision to use military force in recent moral argument / Daniel R. Brunstetter

Contemporary international law on the decision to use armed force / Davis Brown

The role of the military in the decision to use armed force / Martin L. Cook

Special Problems I : the question of preemption / Mary Manjikian

Special problems II : the response to asymmetric warfare and terrorism / Keith Pavlischek

Special problems III : the question of using military force in the frame of the responsibility to protect / Luke Glanville

Special problems IV : questions posed by nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction / Darrell Cole

Part II. Right conduct in the use of military force

Framing the issues in moral terms I : applying the just war tradition / J. Daryl Charles

Framing the issues in moral terms II : the Kantian perspective on jus in bello / Brian Orend

Framing the issues in moral terms III : rights and right conduct / Robert E. Williams, Jr.

International humanitarian law / Howard M. Hensel

Boston to where : the challenges posed by local-global terrorism / Amos N. Guiora

Terrorism and ethics / Pauletta Otis

The bombing of dual-use targets / Paul Robinson

The ethics of autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles / James L. Cook.

Targeted killing / Laurie R. Blank

Cyber warfare / George R. Lucas, Jr.

The moral equality of combatants / Henrik Syse

Treatment of prisoners and detainees / John Sawicki

My country, right or wrong : if the cause is just, is anything allowed? / David Whetham

No job for a soldier? : military ethics in peacekeeing operations / Bård Mæland

Enforcing and strengthening noncombatant immunity / James Turner Johnson

Understanding proportionality in contemporary armed conflict / Paul Gilbert

Part III. Ethics after a conflict is over

Security and political order : the ethics of who is in charge and enforcing the peace at war's end / Eric D. Patterson

How should this conflict end? : implications of the end of an armed conflict for the decision to use military force and conduct in the use of such force / Timothy J. Demy

War crimes tribunals after armed conflict / Carla L. Reyes

Fostering reconciliation as a goal of military ethics / Nigel Biggar

Part IV. Perspectives from other cultures

Ethics in the Islamic tradition on war / John Kelsay

Chinese traditions on military ethics / Ping-cheung Lo

The Indian tradition / Torkel Brekke.

War > Moral and ethical aspects.