James Turner Johnson and the Iraq War Debate

Professor of Religion and Associate Member of the Graduate Department of Political Science at Rutgers -- The State University of New Jersey, where he has been on the faculty since 1969. His research and teaching have focused principally on the historical development and application of moral traditions related to war, peace, and the practice of statecraft. He is author of several books on the historical development and contemporary use of the just war tradition, including Just War Tradition and the Restraint of War: An Ethical Inquiry (1981), Morality and Contemporary Warfare (1999), and, most recently, The War to Oust Saddam Hussein : The Context, The Debate, The War and the Future (2005).

Just War, As It Was and Is. First Things 149 (January 2005): 14-24.

• Just War & Jihad: Two Views of War. A Conversation with Johnson and Christopher Hitchens. Posted: Friday, June 27, 2003. Ethics & Public Policy Center.
  
• Using Military Force Against the Saddam Hussein Regime: the Moral Issues, by James Turner Johnson. December 4, 2002. Essay is based on a lecture delivered to members and guests of the Foreign Policy Research Institute on December 4, 2002.
  
• Jihad & Just War. First Things 124 (June/July 2002): 12-14.
  
• Terrorism and "just war". Symposium w/ Martin L. Cook, Glen Stassen & Jean Bethke Elshtain. Christian Century, Nov 14, 2001.
  
• "Can Force be Used Justly? Questions of Retributive and Restorative Justice". 2001 Kuyper Lecture took place at Gordon College in Wenham, MA, on November 1, 2001.
  
• In Response to Terror First Things 90 (February 1999): 11-13.
  
• Just Cause Revisited. September 1, 1998.
  
• The Broken Tradition - Just War Doctrine The National Interest, Fall, 1996.