By Brian Orend. Moves beyond the standard just war categories to deal comprehensively with new challenges such as the conflict with terrorism, cyber-warfare, drone attacks, the wrap-up of Iraq and Afghanistan; conflicts in Libya and Syria; and protracted struggles (like the Arab-Israeli conflict) and includes reviews of major military conflicts of the past few decades, looking for implications of the evolving tradition of just war thinking and concludes with a critical engagement with the major alternatives to just war thinking: pacifism and ‘realism.’ Read more.