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U.S. policy debates and justifications for the Vietnam War (1954–1975)

1954 - 1975

19 entries

The Nuremberg Trials and legal argumentation about aggressive war (1945–1949)

1943 - 1949

13 entries

The 2003 Iraq War: legal, moral, and policy controversies (2002–2010)

2002 - 2010

21 entries

Responsibility to Protect (R2P) doctrine and intervention cases (2001–2011)

2001 - 2011

12 entries

NATO intervention in Kosovo and contemporaneous legal/ethical debates (1998–1999)

1998 - 1999

13 entries

Medieval scholastic formulations on war, especially Thomas Aquinas (1200–1300)

400 - 1300

12 entries

Marxist and anti-imperialist critiques of just war theory (19th–20th centuries)

1907 - 1961

13 entries

Just peace and abolitionist movements challenging just war frameworks (1990–present)

1992 - 2025

12 entries

Drone warfare ethics and just war considerations (2001–present)

2001 - 2025

15 entries

Cyber warfare and emerging jus ad bellum/jus in bello norms (2007–present)

2007 - 2021

16 entries

Carl von Clausewitz’s On War and its ethical reception (1816–1848)

1816 - 1848

13 entries

Allied strategic bombing and proportionality debates in World War II (1939–1945)

1907 - 1945

12 entries