19, No. 2, Special Focus Issue: The Ethics of Paul Ramsey (Fall, 1991), pp. 183-207 (25 pages) An effort to recover and explicate the idea of just war in Christian terms spans Paul Ramsey's career for ...

can be a just war. This rule enormously restricts the number of groups that can ethically wage war. For example, it stops wars declared by rebels who've overthrown a legal government being ...

it may cause a weak country to surrender on ethical grounds a war that in fact it might actually win (for example the United ... A war is only a just war if there is a reasonable chance of success.