International law and conventional morality grant that states may stand ready to defend their borders with lethal force. But what grounds the permission to kill for the sake of political sovereignty and territorial integrity? In this book leading theorists address this vexed issue, and set the terms of future debate over national defence.

• Acknowledgements


• 1: Cécile Fabre and Seth Lazar: Introduction


• 2: Seth Lazar: National Defence, Self-Defence, and the Problem of Political Aggression


• 3: Patrick Emerton and Toby Handfield: Understanding the Political Defensive Privilege


• 4: David Rodin: The Myth of National Self-Defence


• 5: Cécile Fabre: Cosmopolitanism and Wars of Self-Defence


• 6: Jeff McMahan: What Rights may be Defended by Means of War?


• 7: Yitzhak Benbaji: Distributive Justice, Human Rights, and Territorial Integrity: A Contractarian Account of the Crime of Aggression


• 8: Margaret Moore: Collective Self-Determination, Institutions of Justice, and Wars of National Defence


• 9: Anna Stilz: Territorial Rights and National Defence


• 10: Christopher Kutz: Democracy, Defence, and the Threat of Intervention


• Index

Cécile Fabre is currently Professor of Political Philosophy at Oxford University, and Fellow in Philosophy at Lincoln College. She has published extensively on rights, justice, and war--her latest monograph, Cosmopolitan War, came out with OUP in 2012.
; Seth Lazar is a continuing research fellow at the School of Philosophy in the Research School of Social Sciences, and the Australian National university. He writes on war and killing, and has published in the premier international journals in moral and political philosophy.