Books written by Cian O'Driscoll

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  Moral Victories: The Ethics of Winning Wars

  It is quite evident that it would be next to impossible to fight and win a war that satisfied all the requirements of the revisionists (see also 'The Scandal of Winning' in Chapter 7). The first requirement of a moral victory is, ...

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  Moral Victories: The Ethics of Winning Wars

  Though not amenable to easy answers, these important questions are both perennial and especially urgent. This book brings together a group of leading scholars from various disciplines to tackle them.

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  Just War: Authority, Tradition, and Practice

  The chapters in this collection, organized around these two dimensions, offer a compelling reassessment of the authority issue’s centrality in how we can, do, and ought to think about war in contemporary global politics.

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  Moral Victories: The Ethics of Winning Wars

  The Ethics of Winning Wars Andrew R. Hom, Cian O'Driscoll, Kurt Mills ... In 2004, this figure almost doubled to 849.5 How can leaders fight an unwinnable war in a just manner? JWT has tended to neglect this question.

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  Just War: Authority, Tradition, and Practice

  The chapters in this collection, organized around these two dimensions, offer a compelling reassessment of the authority issue’s centrality in how we can, do, and ought to think about war in contemporary global politics.

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  Victory: The Triumph and Tragedy of Just War

  This book examines the vexed position that the concept of victory occupies within this framework.

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  Victory: The Triumph and Tragedy of Just War

  ... decisive victory predicated on success in battle did not suddenly become ... victory through battle is a romantic trope left over from the only time in history when ... Quest for Decisive Warfare from Breitenfeld to Waterloo (Bloomington ...