Peter Temes is author of The Just War and President of Antioch New England Graduate School.

From the time of Thomas Aquinas, Western thinkers have been obsessed with the question of when is war a just cause. This is particularly acute issue for a powerful democracy like the United States of America in the early 21st century. Peter Temes has concluded that the major issue for America is assuring a better, more democratic result at the end of a conflict. In this conversation, he explains how his thinking rests upon the work of earlier scholars and writers.