This book offers a renewed defense of traditional just war theory and considers its application to certain highly controversial contemporary cases, particularly in the Middle East.

Tamar Meisels is Professor of Political Theory in the Department of Political Science at Tel Aviv University, Israel. She is author of Territorial Rights (2005), The Trouble with Terror (2008) and co-editor of Soft War: The Ethics of Unarmed Conflict (2017, with Michael L. Gross).

Preface Introduction Part I: Just War Theory 1. Comrades in Arms: The Equal Innocence of Soldiers 2. In Defense of the Defenseless: The Morality of the Laws of War 3. Fighting for Independence: What Can Just War Theory Part II: Just War Theory in Practice 4. Proportionality and Risk 5. Economic Warfare: the Case of Gaza 6. Preemptive Strikes: Israel and Iran 7. Assassination: Targeting Nuclear Scientists 8. Conclusions