ABSTRACT
This chapter examines in more detail approaches from the fields of International relations (IR) theory and just war theory, which, in many ways are broader ways to think about global violence that incorporate aspects of both moral theory and political theory. IR theory differs from moral theory and political theory in that its primary purpose is not typically thought to be normative Liberal thought in IR theory shares many of the same intellectual origins as liberalism in the field of political theory. The just war tradition also proceeds from fundamental insights from realism about the inevitability of war and armed conflict, like liberalism, asserts that there are and should be limitations on the conduct of war. Perhaps the most influential and widely read just war theorist in contemporary times, Michael Walzer, develops a self-consciously communitarian argument about different aspects of the justice of war.
