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Brunstetter offers an insightful analysis of force short of war, even for those who do not accept his initial presumptions. There does not seem to be any decline in potential opportunities for limited uses of force on the horizon, making this work, and its wide distribution, all the more important. -- Paul Vicars, Baylor University, The Strategy Bridge

This book represents the culmination of nearly a decade of thinking deeply about and contributing impressively to this vital topic. * Brian Orend, University of Waterloo, Perspective on Politics * Brunstetter focuses on four kinds of limited force: drones, targeted airstrikes, no-fly zones, and small-scale interventions by special forces. These phenomena cry out for moral and political evaluation. Brunstetter, in this refreshingly ambitious book, purports to offer a full-scale theory in this regard -of the jus ad vim, where vim stands for force (short-of-war), with the whole phrase thus meaning the justice of using limited force. This book represents the culmination of nearly a decade of thinking deeply about and contributing impressively to this vital topic. * Brian Orend, University of Waterloo, Perspective on Politics * Brunstetter offers an insightful analysis of force short of war, even for those who do not accept his initial presumptions. There does not seem to be any decline in potential opportunities for limited uses of force on the horizon, making this work, and its wide distribution, all the more important. * Paul Vicars, Baylor University, The Strategy Bridge *

...read Brunstetter's excellent book and profit from its fine and principled analysis. * Brian Orend, University of Waterloo, Political Theory * This book represents the culmination of nearly a decade of thinking deeply about and contributing impressively to this vital topic. * Brian Orend, University of Waterloo, Perspective on Politics * Brunstetter focuses on four kinds of limited force: drones, targeted airstrikes, no-fly zones, and small-scale interventions by special forces. These phenomena cry out for moral and political evaluation. Brunstetter, in this refreshingly ambitious book, purports to offer a full-scale theory in this regard -of the jus ad vim, where vim stands for force (short-of-war), with the whole phrase thus meaning the justice of using limited force. This book represents the culmination of nearly a decade of thinking deeply about and contributing impressively to this vital topic. * Brian Orend, University of Waterloo, Perspective on Politics * Brunstetter offers an insightful analysis of force short of war, even for those who do not accept his initial presumptions. There does not seem to be any decline in potential opportunities for limited uses of force on the horizon, making this work, and its wide distribution, all the more important. * Paul Vicars, Baylor University, The Strategy Bridge *

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Daniel Brunstetter is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine. Daniel's work on just war thinking explores the history of the just war tradition and critically examines contemporary debates about the use of force. His works is published in Ethics & International Affairs, Journal of Military Ethics, Political Studies, Review of International Studies, International Journal of Human Rights, Peace Review and elsewhere. He is the author of Tensions of Modernity: Las Casas and His Legacy in the French Enlightenment (Routledge, 2012), and co-editor of two edited volumes that cover a variety of themes related to the ethics of war: The Ethics of War and Peace Revisited: Moral Challenges in an Era of Contested and Fragmented Sovereignty (Georgetown University Press, 2018) and Just War Thinkers: From Cicero to the 21st Century (Routledge, 2017).

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