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Author : Eric Patterson
Release : 2009
Genre : International relations
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Book Rating : 858/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Just War Thinking by : Eric Patterson
Download or read book Just War Thinking written by Eric Patterson. This book was released on 2009. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul D. Miller
Release : 2021-01-07
Genre : Law
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Book Rating : 68X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Just War and Ordered Liberty by : Paul D. Miller
Download or read book Just War and Ordered Liberty written by Paul D. Miller. This book was released on 2021-01-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When is war just? What does justice require? Miller draws from the intellectual history of just war to assess contemporary warfare.
Author : Andrew Fiala
Release : 2007-12-07
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 542/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Just War Myth by : Andrew Fiala
Download or read book The Just War Myth written by Andrew Fiala. This book was released on 2007-12-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the war in Iraq continues and Americans debate the consequences of the war in Afghanistan, the war on terror, and the possibility of war with North Korea and Iran, war is one of the biggest issues in public debate. Andrew Fiala in The Just War Myth challenges the apparently predominant American sentiment that war can be easily justified. Even most Democrats seem to hold that opinion, despite the horrific costs of war both on the people being attacked or caught up in the chaos and on the Americans involved in carrying out the war. The Just War Myth argues that while the just war theory is a good theory, actual wars do not live up to its standards. The book provides a genealogy of the just war idea and also turns a critical eye on current events, including the idea of preemptive war, the use of torture, and the unreality of the Bush Doctrine. Fiala warns that pacifism, too, can become mythological, advocating skepticism about attempts to justify war.
Author : Fritz Allhoff
Release : 2013-06-26
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Rating : 994/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Routledge Handbook of Ethics and War by : Fritz Allhoff
Download or read book Routledge Handbook of Ethics and War written by Fritz Allhoff. This book was released on 2013-06-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Caron E. Gentry
Release : 2014-01-01
Genre : Political Science
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Book Synopsis The Future of Just War by : Caron E. Gentry
Download or read book The Future of Just War written by Caron E. Gentry. This book was released on 2014-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
