Close calls : intervention, terrorism, missile defense, and 'just war' today / edited by Elliott Abrams ; essays by James Turner Johnson ... [and others].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

I. Can modern wars be just? Just cause revisited / James Turner Johnson -- Competent authority revisited / Eugene V. Rostow -- Just war in a new era of military affairs / A.J. Bacevich -- II. When should we intervene? NBC-Armed rogues : is there a moral case for preemption? / Brad Roberts -- Humanitarian intervention : from concept to reality / John Langan -- Complex humanitarian emergencies and moral choice / Andrew Natsios -- Somalia and the problems of doing good : a perspective from the state department / John R. Bolton -- Somalia and the problems of doing good : a perspective from the defense department / Alberto R. Coll -- The duty to intervene : ethics and the varieties of humanitarian intervention / Drew Christiansen and Gerard F. Powers -- III. Can democracies fight terrorism? Terrorism and just war doctrine / Anthony Clark Arend -- Counterterrorism and democratic values : an Israeli practitioner's experience / Yigal Carmon -- Terrorists on TV : how the mass media cover terrorism / Eric Breindel -- IV. Is missile defense moral? New threats for old / Margaret Thatcher -- A just war doctrine for ballistic-missile defense / James Turner Johnson -- Ballistic-missile defense in the new strategic era / Robert Pagan -- The opposition to missile defense : why some things never change/ Jeffrey Salmon -- Ballistic-missile threats and U.S. policy / R. James Woolsey -- Global middle defense : effective affordable, and available / Henry F. Cooper.