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The ethics of war : essay / edited by Saba Bazargan-Forward and Samuel C. Rickless.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bazargan-Forward, Saba, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- War--Moral and ethical aspects.
- War.
- Just war doctrine.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxiii, 278 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017.
- Summary:
- Some of the most basic assumptions of Just War theory have been dismantled in a barrage of criticism and analysis in the first dozen years of the twenty-first century. 'The Ethics of War' continues and pushes past this trend. This anthology is an authoritative treatment of the ethics and law of war by eminent scholars who first challenged the orthodoxy of Just War theory, as well as by 'second-wave' revisionists.
- Contents:
- Liability, proportionality, and the number of aggressors
- The lesser evil obligation
- Human rights, proportionality, and the lives of soldiers
- Resolving the responsibility dilemma
- Duress and duty
- Can states be corporately liable to attack in war?
- Targeting Al Qaeda: law and morality in the us war on terror
- Adil Ahmad Haque
- Double effect and the laws of war
- Beyond the paradigm of self-defense? on revolutionary violence
- War's endings and the structure of just war theory
- Moral recovery after war: the role of hope.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2017.
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 10, 2017).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-061455-2
- 0-19-937616-6
- 0-19-937615-8
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