This book is comprised of essays previously published in Philosophy & Public Affairs and also an extended excerpt from Michael Walzer's Just and Unjust Wars.
These essays on moral issues in international affairs focus on a number of problems that generate intense interest in the post-Vietnam War era--the basis of rules for the conduct of war, the significance of national boundaries and the nature of a state's right not to be interfered with by outsiders, the foundations of international property rights, and the requirements of international distributive justice.