Valerie Morkevi¿ius is Associate Professor of Political Science at Colgate University, New York. Her work focuses on the intersection between power and ethics, and the applicability of traditional just war thinking to contemporary challenges. Her recent publications include 'Power and Order: The Shared Logics of Realism and Just War Theory' in the International Studies Quarterly. She has also written chapters on just war thinking in Islam, Hinduism, and Protestantism, contributing to World Religions and Norms of War (2009), The Prism of Just War: Asian and Western Perspectives on the Legitimate Use of Military Force (2010), and Religion, War and Ethics: A Sourcebook of Textual Tradition (Cambridge, 2014).
1. The dangers of just war thinking (or how I learned to love realists)
2. Sharing the middle passage: parallels between realism and just war thinking
3. Power, powder, politics: just war's historical and political contingencies
4. Between two kingdoms: the Christian just war traditions
5. Taming the world of war: the Islamic just war traditions
6. Balancing the Mandala: the Hindu just war tradition
7. What's old is new again: the future of just war thinking.
