Quote Originally Posted by littlelostboy
One justification is religious: My god is better than your god. In this case, Christianty against Islam. Another justification can also be the fight over precious raw materials. When a country has to little resources to support a large and increasing population, there are two choice. War or trade. War always seem the most frequent answer and sometimes trade is just a pretext for war.
Religion is hardly a just cause for modern International Relations theory.


@Ian, Read M Walzer's 'just and unjust wars' for proper IR/'just war' theory.
Where/what are you studying BTW?