• Acknowledgements


• Preface


• Introduction


• Chapter One: Institutionalizing the Just War


• Chapter Two: A Richer Jus ad Bellum


• Chapter Three: Institutional Legitimacy


• Chapter Four: Reciprocal Institutional Legitimation


• Chapter Five: The Internal Legitimacy of Humanitarian Intervention


• Chapter Six: Reforming the International Law of Humanitarian Intervention


• Chapter Seven: Justifying Preventive War, Institutionally


• Chapter Eight: A Precommitment Regime for Humanitarian Intervention

Allen Buchanan is James B. Duke Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Law at Duke University and author of 13 books. His most recent books are The Heart of Human Rights (OUP, 2013) and The Evolution of Moral Progress: A Biocultural Theory, co-authored with Russell Powell (OUP, 2018).

Institutionalizing the Just War provides a new approach to theorizing the morality of war and argues that sound moral principles regarding war-making must take into account the fact that the validity of moral principles can depend upon existing institutions and social practices.