March & Modirzadeh: Ambivalent Universalism? Jus ad bellum in Modern Islamic Legal Discourse

Andrew F. March (Yale Univ. - Political Science) & Naz K. Modirzadeh (Harvard Univ. - Law) have posted Ambivalent Universalism? Jus ad bellum in Modern Islamic Legal Discourse (European Journal of International Law, forthcoming). Here's the abstract:

In this paper, we discuss the trajectory of modern Islamic legal discourse on jus ad bellum questions, challenging the ideas that the choice is between either a defensive or an aggressive jihad doctrine, and that declaring and waging war is regarded in Islamic law as properly a matter to be monopolized by legitimate state authorities.