Routledge Handbook of Ethics and War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Routledge Handbook of Ethics and War write by Fritz Allhoff. This book was released on 2013-06-26. Routledge Handbook of Ethics and War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This new Handbook offers a comprehensive overview of contemporary extensions and alternatives to the just war tradition in the field of the ethics of war. The modern history of just war has typically assumed the primacy of four particular elements: jus ad bellum, jus in bello, the state actor, and the solider. This book will put these four elements under close scrutiny, and will explore how they fare given the following challenges: • What role do the traditional elements of jus ad bellum and jus in bello—and the constituent principles that follow from this distinction—play in modern warfare? Do they adequately account for a normative theory of war? • What is the role of the state in warfare? Is it or should it be the primary actor in just war theory? • Can a just war be understood simply as a response to territorial aggression between state actors, or should other actions be accommodated under legitimate recourse to armed conflict? • Is the idea of combatant qua state-employed soldier a valid ethical characterization of actors in modern warfare? • What role does the technological backdrop of modern warfare play in understanding and realizing just war theories? Over the course of three key sections, the contributors examine these challenges to the just war tradition in a way that invigorates existing discussions and generates new debate on topical and prospective issues in just war theory. This book will be of great interest to students of just war theory, war and ethics, peace and conflict studies, philosophy and security studies.
Ethics of Armed Conflict
Ethics of Armed Conflict - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ethics of Armed Conflict write by John W. Lango. This book was released on 2014-01-29. Ethics of Armed Conflict available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Just war theory exists to stop armies and countries from using armed force without good cause. But how can we judge whether a war is just? In this original book, John W. Lango takes some distinctive approaches to the ethics of armed conflict. DT A revisionist approach that involves generalising traditional just war principles, so that they are applicable by all sorts of responsible agents to all forms of armed conflict DT A cosmopolitan approach that features the Security Council DT A preventive approach that emphasises alternatives to armed force, including negotiation, nonviolent action and peacekeeping missions DT A human rights approach that encompasses not only armed humanitarian intervention but also armed invasion, armed revolution and all other forms of armed conflict Lango shows how these can be applied to all forms of armed conflict, however large or small: from interstate wars to UN peacekeeping missions, and from civil wars counter-insurgency and counter-terrorism operations.
Contingent Pacifism
Contingent Pacifism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Contingent Pacifism write by Larry May. This book was released on 2015-08-27. Contingent Pacifism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first major philosophical treatment of contingent pacifism, offering an account of pacifism from the just war tradition.
The Future of Just War
The Future of Just War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Future of Just War write by Caron E. Gentry. This book was released on 2014-01-01. The Future of Just War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Just War scholarship has adapted to contemporary crises and situations. But its adaptation has spurned debate and conversation—a method and means of pushing its thinking forward. Now the Just War tradition risks becoming marginalized. This concern may seem out of place as Just War literature is proliferating, yet this literature remains welded to traditional conceptualizations of Just War. Caron E. Gentry and Amy E. Eckert argue that the tradition needs to be updated to deal with substate actors within the realm of legitimate authority, private military companies, and the questionable moral difference between the use of conventional and nuclear weapons. Additionally, as recent policy makers and scholars have tried to make the Just War criteria legalistic, they have weakened the tradition's ability to draw from and adjust to its contemporaneous setting. The essays in The Future of Just War seek to reorient the tradition around its core concerns of preventing the unjust use of force by states and limiting the harm inflicted on vulnerable populations such as civilian noncombatants. The pursuit of these challenges involves both a reclaiming of traditional Just War principles from those who would push it toward greater permissiveness with respect to war, as well as the application of Just War principles to emerging issues, such as the growing use of robotics in war or the privatization of force. These essays share a commitment to the idea that the tradition is more about a rigorous application of Just War principles than the satisfaction of a checklist of criteria to be met before waging “just” war in the service of national interest.
Just War Thinking
Just War Thinking - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Just War Thinking write by Eric Patterson. This book was released on 2009. Just War Thinking available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
