War by Agreement

Yitzhak Benbaji teaches philosophy at Tel-Aviv University Faculty of Law. He previously worked in the Department of Philosophy and in the Faculty of Law at Bar-Ilan University (2002-12). He has been a visiting scholar and professor at the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study, the University of Toronto, Northwestern University, Yale Law School, and the Institute for Advanced Study in Jerusalem. Among his publications are The View from Within (2011) and Reading Walzer (2013).Daniel Statman teaches at the philosophy department at the University of Haifa and is former Chair of the Israeli Philosophical Association. He has been a visiting scholar and professor at various institutes, including the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study, the University of Michigan, Oxford University, and the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften in Bad Homburg. He is the author and editor of many books and articles, including Moral Luck (1993), Moral Dilemmas (1995), Religion and Morality (1995), Virtue Ethics (1997), and State and Religion in Israel (2019).

War by Agreement is the only serious book-length account and defence of contractarian just war theory. It has appeared at a critical inflection point in the development of just war theory... Benbaji and Statman provide an iluminating counterpoint to revisionism, which keeps the laws of war firmly in view.

• Introduction: The Moral Standing of the War Agreement 1: The Challenge 2: Foundations of a Non-Individualist Morality 3: A Contractarian Account of the Crime of Aggression 4: The Aims of Just Wars and Jus Ex Bello 5: Contractarianism and the Moral Equality of Combatants 6: Contractarianism and the Moral Equality of Civilians 7: When the Agreement Collapses 8: Concluding Remarks