Abstract
This article discusses Jean Bethke Elshtain's recent book Just war against terror: the burden of American power in a violent world. It argues that Elshtain's book, though characteristically powerful and thought provoking, combines both an intelligent and thoughtful defence of the idea that the immediate US response to September 11 was a just use of force, as well as a claim about the moral importance of US power in contemporary world politics. It concludes that the problems with the second claim run the risk of nullifying the considerable power of the first.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 107-116 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| Journal | International Affairs |
| Volume | 80 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| Publication status | Published - Jan 2004 |