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Professor O'Donovan argues that since the Reformation the development of religious positions cannot be dissociated from the rise of legal theory and secular forms of justice.  At the heart of the issue must lie a proper understanding of the relationship between politics and theology; and our sources are as likely to be Grotius or Locke as more overtly theological thinkers.  In this light, O'Donovan re-examines questions of contemporary urgency including the use of biological and nuclear weapons, military intervention, economic sanctions, war-crimes trials, and the roles of the Geneva Convention, international conventions, and the U.N. The book should be read by anyone concerned with the ethics of warfare.