The just war tradition usually refers to the body of ideas concerning the justification for going to war and the justness of kinds of warfare that has been developed in the Christian West, but of course other religious and philosophical traditions have addressed the same and related issues about the morality of war. In this work, Hensel (politico-military affairs, US Air Force Air War College) presents nine papers that collectively provide a comparative portrait of different traditions of just war theory. They address the Greco-Roman roots of the Western just war tradition, Christian understandings of just war, early modern perspectives in the West, Sunni and Shi'i Islamic perspectives on war, Hindu perspectives, the Chinese concept of righteous war, Japanese perspectives, and Korean perspectives. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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