Is the War on Terror just?

Demonstrate that you can use (one or more) classical texts to interpret and analyse a contemporary (theoretical or practical) issue in international affairs.
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Hi Can you please put more time on working on the essay? it needs to be 1900 words at least not 1500 with 10 references, and it got only 4 this is not acceptable at all. and I barley saw any in-text citation. I provided you with a list of reading that you can use, I will send them again in case you did not get them. Please fix it Best regards Hissa ————————- Here is the list of readings Required Reading Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, Part II-II, Translator: Fathers of the English Dominican Province, Release Date: July 4, 2006 [EBook #18755], Project Gutenberg, question 40, pp 257-61, question 64, pp 390-8. An excerpt of this text is also published in Brown, Chris, Terry Nardin and Nicholas Rengger (eds.), International Relations in Political Thought, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002, part 6, 213-220. National Security Strategy of the United States of America 2002, pp. 13-16. https://www.e-ir.info/2013/07/18/just-war-theory-and-the-ethics-of-drone-warfare/ Elshtain, Jean Bethke, Just War Against Terror. The Burden of American Power in a Violent World, New York: Basic Books, 2003, ch. 4. Secondary Readings Bellamy, Alex J., Just Wars: From Cicero to Iraq, Cambridge: Polity, 2006. Crawford, Neta C., \’Just War Theory and the U.S. Counterterror War\’, in Perspectives on Politics 1:1, 2003, 5-25. Flint, Colin and Ghazi-Walid Falah, \’How the U.S. Justified its War on Terrorism: Prime Morality and the Construction of a Just War\’, in Third World Quarterly 25:8, 2004, 1379-99. Walzer, Michael, \’The Triumph of Just War Theory (and the Dangers of Success)\’, in Social Research 69:4, 2002, 925-44. Sjoberg, Laura, Gender, Justice, and the Wars in Iraq: A Feminist Reformulation of Just War Theory, Rowman and Littlefield, 2006. Walzer, Michael, Just and Unjust Wars. A Moral Argument with Historical Illustrations, New York: Basic Books, 1977, several subsequent editions. Elshtain, Jean Bethke, Women and War, New York: Basic Books, 1987. Johnson, J. T., Just War Tradition and the Restraint of War: A Moral and Historical Inquiry, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1981. Rodin, D., War and Self-Defence, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. McMahan, J., Killing in War, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. This book addresses the distinction between ius in bello and ius ad bellum. Kinsella, Helen, The Image Before the Weapon: A Critical History of the Distinction Between Combatant and Civilian, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2011. Shue, H. and D. Rodin (eds), Preemption: Military Action and Moral Justification, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. Teichman, J., Pacifism and the Just War: A Philosophical Examination, Oxford: Blackwell, 1986. Tuck, Richard, The Rights of War and Peace: Political Thought and the International Order from Grotius to Kant, Oxford: OUP, 1999. Tuck, Richard, Natural Rights Theories: Their Origin and Development, Cambridge: CUP, 1979. Brunstetter, Daniel and Megan Braun, \’The Implications of Drones on the Just War Tradition\’, in Ethics and International Affairs 25:3, 2011, 337-58. Luban, David, \’What Would Augustin Do? The President, Drones, and Just War Theory\’, in Boston Review, June 6, 2012. Schrnig, Niklas and Frank Sauer, \’Killer Drones: The \’Silver Bullet\’ of Democratic Warfare?\’, in Security Dialogue 43:4, 2012, 363-80. Freiberger, Erich, \’Just War Theory and the Ethics of Drone Warfare\’, in E-IR, 18 July 2013, https://www.e-ir.info/2013/07/18/just-war-theory-and-the-ethics-of-drone-warfare/ Enewark, Christian, Armed Drones and the Ethics of War. Military virtue in a post-heroic Age, London: Routledge, 2014. Chamayou, Gregoire, Drone Theory, Penguin 2015.
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