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The Morality of Retributive Targeted Killing (2019)
Journal Article
Braun, C. N. (2019). The Morality of Retributive Targeted Killing. Journal of Military Ethics, 18(5), 170-188. https://doi.org/10.1080/15027570.2019.1659216

This article assesses whether the contemporary consensus of just war thinking to allow only for defence as just cause for war between states should also be applied to the practice of targeted killing of non-state actors. It argues that it should not... Read More about The Morality of Retributive Targeted Killing.

Just war and the question of authority (2018)
Journal Article
Braun, C. N. (2018). Just war and the question of authority. Zeitschrift für Ethik und Moralphilosophie, 1(2), 221-236. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42048-018-0024-x

This article assesses the recently renewed interest in the just war criterion of sovereign authority from a Thomistic perspective. It contrasts the classical conceptualisation of authority as found in the work of St Thomas Aquinas with the argument m... Read More about Just war and the question of authority.

The historical approach and the ‘war of ethics within the ethics of war’ (2018)
Journal Article
Braun, C. N. (2018). The historical approach and the ‘war of ethics within the ethics of war’. Journal of International Political Theory, 14(3), 349-366. https://doi.org/10.1177/1755088218786306

Contemporary just war thinking has mostly been split into two competing camps, namely, Michael Walzer’s approach and its revisionist critics. While Walzerians employ a casuistical method, most revisionists resort to analytical philosophy’s reflective... Read More about The historical approach and the ‘war of ethics within the ethics of war’.