Examines the practical dilemmas, both moral and political, of peace time and war time as discussed by the Late Scholastics.

Daniel Schwartz is Senior Lecturer in the Departments of Political Science and International Relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of Aquinas on Friendship (2007) and the editor of Interpreting Suárez (Cambridge, 2011).

List of abbreviations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I. Civic Life: 1. The ethics of electoral bribing; 2. The ethics of tax evasion; 3. Keeping out the foreign poor: the city as a private person; 4. The political duty to keep your secrets; 5. Scandal and inexcusable portraits; Part II. War: 6. Conscientious objection in war: from duty to right; 7. Patriotic collaborationism: Demosthenes and Alexander; 8. War and the boundaries of punitive jurisdiction; 9. Justice after victory; Concluding remarks; Bibliography; Index.