Just War Against Terror by Elshtain, Jean -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Title Page Dedication Epigraph Acknowledgements Introduction 1 - WHAT HAPPENED ON SEPTEMBER 11?

POLITICS AND THE CAPACITY FOR JUDGMENT THE CORROSIVE EFFECTS OF MISDESCRIPTION WHAT IS A TERRORIST? THE IMPORTANCE OF MAKING THE RIGHT DISTINCTIONS THE IMPORTANCE OF DISTINCTIONS TO DEMOCRATIC ARGUMENT JUSTICE, NOT REVENGE

2 - WHAT IS AT STAKE?

MORAL EQUALITY THE SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE HOW THE CHURCH-STATE DISTINCTION FARED IN THE WEST WHOSE LAW GOVERNS WHAT? RELIGION AND POLITICS IN AMERICAN CULTURE GENDER PRACTICES: POLITICAL EQUALITY OR PURDAH THE CRISIS WITHIN ISLAM

3 - WHAT IS A JUST WAR?

TO PREVENT THE WORST FROM HAPPENING MAKING A CASE FOR THE JUST USE OF FORCE HOW TO DECIDE WHETHER A WAR IS JUST FORCE AS THE SERVANT OF JUSTICE

4 - IS THE WAR AGAINST TERRORISM JUST?

THE LIMITS SET BY JUST WAR JUST AND UNJUST MEANS

5 - THE ACADEMY RESPONDS TO TERROR

A BRIEF HISTORY OF POSTWAR DISCONTENTS “ WHAT WE’RE FIGHTING FOR”: AMERICAN INTELLECTUALS DEFEND THE WAR AGAINST TERRORISM IGNORING OR DISTORTING THE FACTS WAS THERE A MAD RUSH TO WAR? DID AMERICA CREATE OSAMA BIN LADEN? WORN-OUT CATEGORIES AND FALSE ANALOGIES

6 - TAKING TERRORISTS AT THEIR WORD

FALSE CLARITY DERIVED FROM FLAWED ANALOGIES ATTACKING AMERICAN MOTIVES AND ACTIONS

7 - WHERE IS THE LEGACY OF NIEBUHR AND TILLICH?

CHRISTIANITY IN RELATION TO CULTURE TILLICH AGAINST NAZISM NIEBUHR AGAINST UTOPIANISM

8 - THE PULPIT RESPONDS TO TERROR

9 - THE PROBLEM WITH PEACE

CONTRASTING VISIONS OF PEACE OMITTING RELIGION FROM THE VISION JUSTIFICATION OF WAR AND WAR-FIGHTING IN ISLAM THE CRISIS WITHIN ISLAM

10 - ENCOUNTERING ISLAMIST FUNDAMENTALISM

11 - STATES AND SELF-DEFENSE IN A DANGEROUS TIME

APPEASEMENT DOESN’T WORK THE PRICE OF “PEACE” WITHOUT JUSTICE WHY WE NEED THE STATE

12 - AMERICAN POWER AND RESPONSIBILITY

THE AMBIGUOUS ROLE OF NGOS DEFENDING HUMAN DIGNITY

EPILOGUE EPILOGUE TO THE 2004 EDITION APPENDIX: WHAT WE’RE FIGHTING FOR NOTES INDEX Copyright Page