Armed conflict, on domestic or foreign soil, impacts people’s daily lives and shapes policy around the world. Millions live with the threat of terrorism, whet

This collection by leading scholars represents state of the art writings on the ethics of war. Many of the most important and contested controversies in modern

Sociological analysis of the transformation of prohibitions on assassination, torture, and mercenaries as components of the US War on Terror.

We are understandably reluctant to "rank" moral atrocities. What is worse, genocide or terrorism? In this book, Thomas W. Simon argues that politicians use this

Follows the paper trail of torture memos that led to abuses at Guantanámo, in Afghanistan, and in Iraq.