James T. Johnson's Bio


Sovereignty: Moral and Historical Perspectives (Georgetown Univ. Press, 2014)

Ethics and the use of Force: Just War in Historical Perspective (Ashgate, 2011)

The War to Oust Saddam Hussein (Rowman and Littlefield, 2005)

Morality and Contemporary Warfare (Yale Univ. Press, 1999)

The Holy War Idea in Western and Islamic Tradition (Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997)

With George Weigel, Just War and the Gulf War (Ethics and Public Policy Center, 1991)

Just War and Jihad: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives on War and Peace in Western and Islamic Traditions. Edited with John Kelsay (Greenwood Press, 1991)

Cross, Crescent, and Sword: The Justification and Limitation of War in Western and Islamic Tradition (Edited with John Kelsay) (Greenwood Press, 1990)

The Quest for Peace: Three Moral Traditions in Western Cultural History (Princeton Univ. Press, 1987)

The Bible in American Law, Politics, and Political Rhetoric (Editor and Author of Introduction) (Scholars Press, 1985)

Can Modern War be Just? (Yale Univ. Press, 1984)

Just War Tradition and the Restraint of War: A Moral and Historical Inquiry (Princeton Univ. Press, 1981)

Ideology, Reason, and the Limitation of War (Princeton Univ. Press, 1975)