Teaching the ethics of war: Applying theory to "hard cases"

International Studies Perspectives

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 187-203

  Erskine, Toni ^a  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Active Learning; Ethics and international studies; Hard cases; Just War Tradition; Moral dilemmas; Undergraduate teaching

Indexed keywords

ETHICS; TEACHING; WAR;

EID: 33646388709     PISSN: 15283577     EISSN: 15283585     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-3585.2006.00239.x     Document Type: Article

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