BOOKS

Daniel  R. Brunstetter, Just and Unjust Uses of Limited Force: A Moral Argument with Contemporary Illustrations (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021).

Daniel Brunstetter and Jean-Vincent Holeindre (eds). The Ethics of War and Peace Revisited: Moral Challenges in an Era of Contested and Fragmented Sovereignty (Georgetown University Press, 2018).

Daniel Brunstetter, Tensions of Modernity: Las Casas and His Legacy in the French Enlightenment (New York: Routledge, 2012).

 

 

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Daniel Brunstetter, “Just War Theory and the Drone Contract: French Drone Use in the Sahel and the Question of Racialized Consent”, Security Dialogue, forthcoming.

Daniel Brunstetter and Francisco Lobo. “R2P, the Imperial Critique, and Self-Determination: Recovering the Narrative of the Tlaxcaltecas”, Global Responsibility to Protect, 16, 3, (2024), 213-38.

Daniel Brunstetter, “What reading Montaigne during the Second World War can teach us about just war”, Journal of International Political Theory; forthcoming
https://doi.org/10.1177/17550882221074397

Daniel Brunstetter, “Introduction: The Ethical, Legal and Strategic Implications of Limited Strikes”, Ethics & International Affairs, 34, 2 (2020).

Daniel Brunstetter, “Wading Knee-Deep into the Rubicon: Escalation and the Morality of Limited Strikes”, Ethics & International Affairs, 34, 2 (2020).

Daniel Brunstetter, “Benjamin Franklin’s Three Montaignes: The Essays, the Éloges, the Man”, Montaigne Studies, 31 (2019). pdf

Daniel Brunstetter, “A Tale of Two Cities: The Just War Tradition and Cultural Heritage in Times of War”, Global Intellectual History, 4, 4 (2019), pp. 369-88. pdf

Daniel Brunstetter, “Jus ad Vim: A Rejoinder to Helen Frowe”, Ethics & International Affairs, 30, 1 (2016), pp. 131-36. pdf

Daniel Brunstetter and John Emery, “Drones as Aerial Occupation?” Peace Review, 27, 4, (2015) pp. 424-31. pdf

Daniel Brunstetter and Arturo Jiménez Bacardi, “Clashing over Drones: The Legal and Normative Gap between the U.S. and the Human Rights Community” International Journal of Human Rights, 19, 2 (2015), pp. 176-98. pdf

Daniel Brunstetter, “Trends in Just War Thinking during the U.S. Presidential Debates 2000-12: Genocide Prevention and the Renewed Salience of Last Resort”, Review of International Studies 4, 1 (2014), pp.77-99. pdf

Daniel Brunstetter and Megan Braun, “Rethinking the Criterion For Assessing CIA Targeted Killings: Drones, Proportionality and Jus as Vim”, Journal of Military Ethics, 12, 4 (2013), pp. 304-24. pdf

Daniel Brunstetter and Megan Braun, “From Jus ad Bellum to Jus Ad Vim: Recalibrating Our Understanding of the Moral Use of Force”, Ethics & International Affairs 27, 1 (2013), pp. 87-106. pdf

Daniel Brunstetter and Megan Braun, “State of the Union: A Decade of Armed Drones”, Brown Journal of World Affairs, 19, 2, (2013).

Daniel Brunstetter, “Drones: The Future of Warfare?” e-International Relations, (2012). pdf

Daniel Brunstetter and Jean-Vincent Holiendre, “La guerre juste au prisme de la théorie politique” Raisons politiques 45, 1 (2012), pp. 5-18.pdf

Daniel Brunstetter “Yes we can? La théorie de la guerre juste dans les campagnes présidentielles américaines (2000-2008)”, Raisons politiques 45, 1 (2012), pp. 59-80.

Daniel Brunstetter and Megan Braun, “The Implications of Drones on the Just War Tradition”, Ethics & International Affairs 25, 3 (2011). pdf

Daniel Brunstetter, “Rousseau and the Tensions of France’s Contrat d’Accueil et d’Intégration”, Journal of Political Ideologies 17, 1 (2012), pp. 95-114. pdf

Daniel Brunstetter and Scott Brunstetter, ‘“Shades of Green: Engaged Pacifism, the Just War Tradition, and the German Greens”, International Relations 25, 1 (2011), pp. 65-84. pdf

Daniel Brunstetter and Dana Zartner, “Just War Against Barbarians: Revisiting the Valladolid Debates Between Sepúlveda and Las Casas”, Political Studies 59, 3 (2011), pp. 733-52. pdf

Daniel Brunstetter, “Sepúlveda, Las Casas and the Other: Exploring the Tension between Moral Universalism and Alterity”, The Review of Politics 72 (2010), pp. 409- 35. pdf

BOOK CHAPTERS

Daniel Brunstetter, ” Conclusion: Heretics and Humanists and Radicals, Oh My!”, in Daniel R. Brunstetter and Cian O’Driscoll (eds), Just War Thinkers Revisited: Heretics, Humanists and Radicals (New York: Routledge, 2025), pp. 296-306.

Daniel Brunsetter, “Michel de Montaigne”, in Daniel R. Brunstetter and Cian O’Driscoll (eds), Just War Thinkers Revisited: Heretics, Humanists and Radicals (New York: Routledge, 2025), pp. 80-93.

Daniel Brunstetter, “The Post 9/11 Er: Drones and Just War Theory”, in James Patton Rogers (ed.), De Gruyter Handbook of Drone Warfare (2024), pp. 123-38.

Daniel Brunstetter, “L’obscène, la guerre, et moi”, in : Frei, Peter, Labère, Nelly, éd., L’obscène, mode d’emploi. Considérations intempestives à l’usage du monde contemporain (Pessac, MSHA, collection PrimaLun@ 16, 2022), pp. 29-42; https://una-editions.fr/l-obscene-la-guerre-et-moi/.

Daniel Brunstetter and Amélie Férey, “Armed Drones and Sovereignty: The Arc of Strategic Sovereign Possibilities” in Paul Lushenko, William Maley, and Srinjoy Bose (eds.), Drones and Global Order: The Implications of Remote Warfare on International Society (Routledge, 2021).

Daniel Brunstetter, “The Quest for Peace Revisited”, in Eric D. Patterson and Marc LiVecche (eds.), Responsibility and Restraint: James Turner Johnson and the Just War Tradition (Stone Tower Press, 2020), pp. 67-95.

Daniel Brunstetter, “In Defense of Jus ad Vim: Why We Need a Moral Framework for the Use of Limited Force”, in Jai Galliott, (ed.), Force Short of War in Modern Conflict: Jus Ad Vim (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019).pdf

Daniel Brunstetter and Daniel Wehrenfennig, “Developing Leaders Through Innovative Education: The Olive Tree Initiative’s Experiential Learning Approach to Teaching About Intractable Conflicts”, in Agnieszka Paczynska and Susan F. Hirsch (eds.), Conflict Zone, Comfort Zone: Ethics, Pedagogy, and Effecting Change in Field-Based Course (Ohio University Press, 2018).pdf

Daniel Brunstetter, “Las Casas and the Concept of Just War”, in David T. Orique and Rady Roldan-Figueroa (eds.), Bartolomé de Las Casas, O.P.: History, Philosophy, and Theology in the Age of European Expansion (Brill, 2018). pdf

Daniel Brunstetter, “Neutrality, Race and Wars of Annihilation: Native Americans in the Aftermath of the American Revolution”, in Glenn Moots and Phil Hamilton (eds.), Justifying Revolution: Law, Virtue, and Violence in the American War of Independence (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2018).pdf

Daniel Brunstetter, “Justice After the Use of Limited Force: Victory and the Moral Dilemmas of Jus Post Vim”, in Andrew R. Hom, Cian O’Driscoll and Kurt Mills (eds.). Moral Victories: The Ethics of Winning Wars (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), pp. 214-30.pdf

Daniel Brunstetter and Jean-Vincent Holeindre, “Conclusion: Toward the Future of the Ethics of War and Peace”, in Daniel Brunstetter and Jean-Vincent Holeindre (eds). The Ethics of War Revisited: Moral Challenges in an Era of Contested and Fragmented Sovereignty (Washington DC: Georgetown University Press, 2018); pp. 303-14.

Daniel Brunstetter, “The Purview of State-Sponsored Violence: Law Enforcement, Just War, and the Ethics of Limited Force”, in Daniel Brunstetter and Jean-Vincent Holeindre (eds). The Ethics of War Revisited: Moral Challenges in an Era of Contested and Fragmented Sovereignty (Washington DC: Georgetown University Press, 2018), pp. 221-40.

Daniel Brunstetter and Jean-Vincent Holeindre, “Introduction: The Ethics of War and Peace in a World of Contested and Fragmented Sovereignty”, in Daniel Brunstetter and Jean-Vincent Holeindre (eds). The Ethics of War Revisited: Moral Challenges in an Era of Contested and Fragmented Sovereignty (Washington DC: Georgetown University Press, 2018); pp. 1-17.

Daniel Brunstetter, “Le jus ad vim: un cadre éthique pour un usage de la force limitée” in Benoît Durieux, Jean-Baptiste Jeangène-Vilmer, and Frédéric Ramel (eds.). Dictionnaire de la guerre et de la paix (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2017), pp 750-56.pdf

Daniel Brunstetter and Cian O’Driscoll, “Conclusion”, in Daniel Brunstetter and Cian O’Driscoll (eds). Just War Thinkers: From Cicero to the 21st Century (New York: Routledge, 2017), pp.250-56.

Daniel Brunstetter, “Bartolomé de las Casas”, in Daniel Brunstetter and Cian O’Driscoll (eds). Just War Thinkers: From Cicero to the 21st Century (New York: Routledge, 2017), pp. 92-104.

Daniel Brunstetter and Cian O’Driscoll, “Introduction: An Intimation of Possibilities”, in Daniel Brunstetter and Cian O’Driscoll (eds). Just War Thinkers: From Cicero to the 21st Century (New York: Routledge, 2017), pp. 1-7.

Daniel Brunstetter and John Emery, “Restricting the Preventive Use of Force: Drones, the Struggle against Non-State Actors, and Jus ad Vim”, in Kirsten Fisk and Jennifer Ramos eds. Preventive Force: Drones,Targeted Killing and the Transformation of Contemporary Warfare (New York: NYU Press, 2016), pp. 257-82.pdf

Daniel Brunstetter (with Megan Braun and Amelie Ferey), “Défenir et juger la guerre: les consequences de l’usage des drones par les Etats-Unis sur les doctrines de la guerre juste”, in Julie Saada ed. Pensee la guerre: Conflits contemporains, justifications des guerres et débats normatifs (Lyon: Presses Universitaires de Lyon), 2015.pdf

Daniel Brunstetter, “La Mothe Le Vayer and Political Skepticism”, in John C. Laursen and Gianni Paganini (eds). Skepticism and Political Thought in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015).

Daniel Brunstetter, “The Decision To Use Military Force in Recent Moral Argument”, in James Turner Johnson and Eric Patterson eds.. The Ashgate Research Companion to Military Ethics (Surrey UK: Ashgate, 2015), pp. 25-36.

Daniel Brunstetter, Daniel Wehrenfennig, and Johanna Solomon, “The Olive Tree Initiative: Lessons Learned about Peace Education through Experimental Learning”, in Aaron Karako, Celina Del Felice, and Andria Wisler eds. Peace Education Evaluation: Learning from Experience and Exploring Prospects (Charlotte, NC: Information Age Press, 2015), pp. 179-92.

Daniel Brunstetter, “Old World Philosophy in a New World: From Natural Slave to Natural Man,” in Old Worlds, New Worlds. European Cultural Encounters, c.1000 – c.1750, ed. L. Bailey, L. Digglemann, and K.M. Phillips. Brepols Publishers, 2009; pp. 101-120. pdf

INVITED PUBLICATIONS

Daniel Brunstetter, “Teaching about War during the Russia-Ukraine Conflict”, University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, 2023; https://ucigcc.org/commentary/ukraine-one-year-after-the-invasion/#brunstetter

Daniel Brunstetter, “Rephrasing the “Ethical Checklist”: Grappling with Tough Foreign Policy Choices” Just Security, 2023, https://www.justsecurity.org/85064/rephrasing-the-ethical-checklist/

Daniel Brunsetter, “A No-Fly Zone in Ukraine? The Perils of Escalation Should Convince Us Otherwise”, Ethics & International Affairs, 2022; https://www.ethicsandinternationalaffairs.org/2022/a-no-fly-zone-in-ukraine-the-perils-of-escalation-should-convince-us-otherwise/

Daniel Brunstetter, “Over-the-Horizon Capabilities: New Name, Same Old Challenges”, 2021, Modern War Institute; https://mwi.usma.edu/over-the-horizon-counterterrorism-new-name-same-old-challenges/.

Daniel Brunstetter, “Trump’s executive order on drone strikes sends civilian casualty data back into the shadows”, The Conversation

Daniel Brunstetter, “Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory: Generational War and the Illusion of Winning”, 2016, http://moralvictories.gla.ac.uk/snatching-defeat-from-the-jaws-of-victory-generational-war-and-the-illusion-of-winning/

Daniel Brunstetter, “Drones and the Never Ending War Against Barbarians”, 2015; http://www.thecritique.com/articles/drones-the-never-ending-war-against-the-barbarians/

Daniel Brunstetter and Daniel Wehrenfennig, “Teaching About Intractable Conflcits: The Olive Tree Initiative”, 2015, https://www.carnegiecouncil.org/publications/articles_papers_reports/731/:pf_printable?

Daniel Brunstetter and Jennifer Ramos, “The Boons and Banes: The Slippery Slope from Humanitarian Drones to Dehumanizing Drones”, 2014, http://www.cihablog.com/tag/daniel-brunstetter/

Daniel Brunstetter, “Syria and the Just Use of Force Short of War,” Ethics & International Affairs; http://www.ethicsandinternationalaffairs.org/2013/syria-and-the-just-use-of-force-short-of-war/

Daniel Brunstetter “Whither the War on Terror”, OC Register, 2013;
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/obama-513340-war-foreign.html

Daniel Brunstetter (with Daniel Wehrenfennig, Agnieszka Paczynska, Joseph Roberts) “Conflict and Conflict Resolution” APSA Teaching and Learning Conference Track Summaries, PS: Political Science and Politics, 46, 3, 2013, pp. 646-48.

Daniel Brunstetter, “The Messy Legality of Drones”, New York Daily News, (2013); http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/messy-legality-drones-article-1.1269026.

Daniel R. Brunstetter, “Can We Wage a Just Drone War”, The Atlantic, July 2012.

BOOK REVIEWS

Daniel Brunstetter, review of Michael Bryant, A World History of War Crimes: From Antiquity to the Present, Second edition. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021, Peace & Change 48, 4, 2023, pp. 341-344.

 Daniel Brunstetter, review of Eglantine Staunton, France, Humanitarian Intervention and the Responsibility to Protect, Manchester:  Manchester University Press, 2020, Global Responsibility to Protect, 14, 4, 2022, pp. 463-70.

Daniel Brunstetter, review of Mauro José Caraccioli, Writing the New World: The Politics of Natural History in the Early Spanish Empire (Gainesville, FL: University of Florida Press, 2020, Perspectives on Politics 19, 3, 2021, pp. 981-82.

Daniel Brunstetter, review of Robert Launay, Savages, Romans and Despots: Thinking about Others from Montaigne to Herder (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2018), H-France Review Vol. 19 (August 2019), No. 163.

Daniel Brunstetter, review of The American Way of Bombing: Changing Ethical and Legal Norms, from Flying Fortresses to Drones, by Matthew Evangelista and Henry Shue, Eds. (Cornell University Press, 2014), in Perspectives on Politics, 14, 2, 2016, pp. 596-98.

Daniel Brunstetter, review of Drones and the Future of Armed Conflict: Ethical, Legal and Strategic Implications, David Cortright, Rachel Fairhurst, and Kristen Wall, eds. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015); in Peace Review, 28, 2 (2016), pp. 258-62.

Daniel Brunstetter, “Fiction and the Political: Towards a Critical Engagement with Power Relations” (Review essay of Reverzy, Fonkoua, and Hartmann, Les fables du politique des Lumières à nos jours) Modern and Contemporary France, 20, 4, 2012, pp. 521-22.

Daniel Brunstetter, Review of Jonathan Wolff. An Introduction to Political Philosophy; in The Review of Metaphysics, September 2007, 61, 169-71.