A Political Scientist Grapples With 'Just War'

Can "just war" theory help us assess the conflicts of the past year -- conflicts that have pitted modern nation-states against small cells of apocalyptic terrorists? Richard A. Falk, a professor emeritus of politics and international affairs at Princeton University and a visiting professor of global and international studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara, has been wrestling with that question since last fall. In a series of much-debated articles in The Nation magazine,

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