(1000) BC: The Bible
(426) BC: Augustine's City of God
(400) BC: Thucydides History of the Peloponnesian War
(350 BC): Aristotle's Politics
(44 BC): Cicero's de officiis
(1265 AD): St. Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologica
(1486-1546): Francisco de Vitoria
(1548-1617): Francisco Suarez
(1583-1645): Hugo Grotius
(1632-1704): Samuel Pufendorf
(1679-1754): Christian Wolff
(1714-1767): Emerich de Vattel
In the twentieth century, just war theory has undergone a revival mainly in response to the invention of nuclear weaponry and American involvement in the Vietnam war. The most important contemporary texts include Michael Walzer’s Just and Unjust Wars (1977), Barrie Paskins and Michael Dockrill The Ethics of War (1979), Richard Norman Ethics, Killing, and War (1995), Brian Orend War and International Justice (2001) and Michael Walzer on War and Justice (2001), as well as seminal articles by Thomas Nagel “War and Massacre”, Elizabeth Anscombe “War and Murder”, and a host of others, commonly found in the journals Ethics or The Journal of Philosophy and Public Affairs.
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