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Whilst Christian theology is familiar withquestions about the relation of church and state, divine and human law, littleattention has been devoted to questions of international law.Esther Reed offers a systematic engagementwith contemporary issues of international law and its relevance for moderntheology.Reed discusses numerous issue driven topics,including: challenges to classic just-war thinking from so-called fourth generationwarfare, peoples and nationhood within divine providence, the ethics ofterritorial borders and the militarization of human intervention. By discussingselected biblical texts Reed helps to move the issues of international lawhigher up the agenda of Christian theology, ethics and moral reasoning.