Just War Against Terror - by Jean Elshtain (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Elshtain addresses the Iraq war and other events in the Middle East, and advocates "just war" in times of crisis and mounts a reasoned attack against the anti-war contingent in American intellectual life.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Jean Bethke Elshtain has been hailed as one of this country's most influential public intellectuals. Michael Walzer called her award-winning Democracy on Trial the work of a truly independent, deeply serious, politically engaged, and wonderfully provocative political theorist. These rare qualities are once again vividly in force in Just War Against Terrorism. In this hard-hitting book, Elshtain advocates just war in times of crisis and mounts a reasoned attack against the defenses of terrorism that have abounded since September 11. Arguing that those who defend terrorist acts on the basis of their root causes-poverty, political conflict, infringement of Western values on Islamic culture-minimize the responsibility of terrorists, Elshtain interrogates the sources of root-cause reasoning and traces them to a fundamental misunderstanding of the Judeo-Christian ethic of war and peace, compounded by faux-pacifist positions and retro-sixties cultural romance. Why, she asks, are pacifist alternatives so palpably inadequate? So implausible? Often so irresponsible? How indeed does one respond to acts of terror that constitute an act of war perpetrated against one's own citizenry? Advocating an ethic of responsibility, Elshtain forces us to ask tough questions not only about the nature of Islam but also about ourselves. Elegantly written and forcefully argued, <i>Just War Against Terror</i> offers a badly needed and refreshingly clear look at responses to terror in the modern world.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"A fascinating introduction to the arguments that have informed thousands of years of just-war scholarship."<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Jean Bethke Elshtain</b> is the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics at The University of Chicago. She is the author of over four hundred essays in scholarly journals and journals of civic opinion, and some one hundred and seventy five book reviews, and was a contributing editor at the <i>New Republic</i>. <p/> Among her books are <i>Jane Addams and the Dream of American Democracy</i> (Basic, 2001), <i>Just War Against Terror</i> (Basic, 2003) and <i>Democracy on Trial</i> (Basic, 1995). She lives in Nashville, Tennessee and Chicago, Illinois.
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