Just War Against Terror: The Burden of American Power in a Violent World

New York: Basic Books, 2003. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Good.. xi, 240 pages. Notes. Index. Highlighting/underlining. Previous owner's stamp on fep. Ink underlining in several places. One of America's foremost political philosophers mounts an impassioned defense of a "just war" against terror. Jean Bethke Elshtain (January 6, 1941 - August 11, 2013) was an American ethicist, and political philosopher. She was the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics in the University of Chicago. She was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 2002, Elshtain received the Frank J. Goodnow award, the highest award for distinguished service to the profession given by the American Political Science Association. The focus of her work is an exploration of the relationship between politics and ethics. After the September 11, 2001 attacks she was one of the more visible academic supporters of U.S. military intervention in Afghanistan. She published over five hundred essays and authored and/or edited over twenty books, including Democracy on Trial, Just War Against Terror: The Burden of American Power in a Violent World, Jane Addams and the Dream of American Democracy, and Augustine and the Limits of Politics.