Is the War on Terror just?

Is the War on Terror just? Order Description This essay is expected to demonstrate that you can use (one or more) classical texts to interpret and analyse a contemporary (theoretical or practical) issue in international affairs. I will provide a list of readings that are needed for this essay --- REVISION Hi Can you please put more time on working on the essay? it needs to be 1900 words at least not 1500 with 10 references, and it got only 4 this is not acceptable at all. and I barley saw any in-text citation. I provided you with a list of reading that you can use, I will send them again in case you did not get them. Please fix it Best regards Hissa ------------------------- Here is the list of readings Required Reading Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, Part II-II, Translator: Fathers of the English Dominican Province, Release Date: July 4, 2006 [EBook #18755], Project Gutenberg, question 40, pp 257-61, question 64, pp 390-8. An excerpt of this text is also published in Brown, Chris, Terry Nardin and Nicholas Rengger (eds.), International Relations in Political Thought, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002, part 6, 213-220. National Security Strategy of the United States of America 2002, pp. 13-16. https://www.e-ir.info/2013/07/18/just-war-theory-and-the-ethics-of-drone- warfare/ Elshtain, Jean Bethke, Just War Against Terror. The Burden of American Power in a Violent World, New York: Basic Books, 2003, ch. 4. Secondary Readings Bellamy, Alex J., Just Wars: From Cicero to Iraq, Cambridge: Polity, 2006. Crawford, Neta C., 'Just War Theory and the U.S. Counterterror War', in Perspectives on Politics 1:1, 2003, 5-25. Flint, Colin and Ghazi-Walid Falah, 'How the U.S. Justified its War on Terrorism: Prime Morality and the Construction of a Just War', in Third World Quarterly 25:8, 2004, 1379-99. Walzer, Michael, 'The Triumph of Just War Theory (and the Dangers of Success)', in Social Research 69:4, 2002, 925-44. Sjoberg, Laura, Gender, Justice, and the Wars in Iraq: A Feminist Reformulation of Just War Theory, Rowman and Littlefield, 2006. Walzer, Michael, Just and Unjust Wars. A Moral Argument with Historical Illustrations, New York: Basic Books, 1977, several subsequent editions. Elshtain, Jean Bethke, Women and War, New York: Basic Books, 1987. Johnson, J. T., Just War Tradition and the Restraint of War: A Moral and Historical Inquiry, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1981. Rodin, D., War and Self-Defence, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. McMahan, J., Killing in War, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. This book addresses the distinction between ius in bello and ius ad bellum. Kinsella, Helen, The Image Before the Weapon: A Critical History of the Distinction Between Combatant and Civilian, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2011. Shue, H. and D. Rodin (eds), Preemption: Military Action and Moral Justification, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. Teichman, J., Pacifism and the Just War: A Philosophical Examination, Oxford: Blackwell, 1986. Tuck, Richard, The Rights of War and Peace: Political Thought and the International Order from Grotius to Kant, Oxford: OUP, 1999. Tuck, Richard, Natural Rights Theories: Their Origin and Development, Cambridge: CUP, 1979. Brunstetter, Daniel and Megan Braun, 'The Implications of Drones on the Just War Tradition', in Ethics and International Affairs 25:3, 2011, 337-58. Luban, David, 'What Would Augustin Do? The President, Drones, and Just War Theory', in Boston Review, June 6, 2012. Schörnig, Niklas and Frank Sauer, 'Killer Drones: The 'Silver Bullet' of Democratic Warfare?', in Security Dialogue 43:4, 2012, 363-80. Freiberger, Erich, 'Just War Theory and the Ethics of Drone Warfare', in E-IR, 18 July 2013, https://www.e- ir.info/2013/07/18/just-war-theory-and-the-ethics-of-drone-warfare/ Enewark, Christian, Armed Drones and the Ethics of War. Military virtue in a post-heroic Age, London: Routledge, 2014. Chamayou, Gregoire, Drone Theory, Penguin 2015.