How can some politicians, pundits, and scholars cite the principles of "just war" to defend military actions-and others to condemn those same interventions? Just what is the just war tradition, and why is it important today?Authors David D. Corey and J. Daryl Charles answer those questions in this fascinating and invaluable book. The Just War Tradition: An Introduction reintroduces the wisdom we desperately need in our foreign policy debates.

David D. Corey is professor of political philosophy in the Honors College at Baylor University. His teaching and scholarship focus on major figures in the history of political thought, the ethics of war, and questions relating to method in political philosophy.