1. Coady, ‘The Morality of Terrorism,’ Philosophy 60 (1985).
2. John Locke, Two Treatises of Government, ed. P. Laslett (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988), sec. IL.xvi.179, p. 388.
3. As the sixteenth-century Spanish theologian and philosopher Vitoria, in similar spirit to Locke, had earlier put it: ‘the foundation of the just war is the injury inflicted upon one by the enemy, as shown above; but an innocent person has done you no harm.’ Francisco de Vitoria, Political Writings, ed. A. Pagdan and J. Lawrance (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991), pp. 314–15.
4. Igor Primoratz, ‘The Morality of Terrorism,’ Journal of Applied Philosophy 14 (1997), p. 231.
5. Michael Walzer, Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument with Historical Illustrations, third edition (New York: Basic Books, 2000), chapter 16.