The Future of Just War New Critical Essays / Caron E. Gentry, Amy E. Eckert.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gentry, Caron E., author.

Contributor:

Eckert, Amy E., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political science.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (202 pages)

Other Title:

Knowledge Unlatched.

Place of Publication:

Athens : University of Georgia Press, 2014.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

These essays seek to reorient the Just War 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. Contributors 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.

Contents:

Section 1 Jus ad Bellum

Chapter 1 Epistemic Bias: Legitimate Authority and Politically Violent Nonstate Actors / Caron E. Gentry Gentry, Caron E. 17

Chapter 2 Strategizing in an Era of Conceptual Change: Security, Sanctioned Violence, and New Military Roles / Kimberly A. Hudson Hudson, Kimberly A., Dan Henk Henk, Dan 30

Chapter 3 Is Just Intervention Morally Obligatory? / Luke Glanville Glanville, Luke 48

Chapter 4 Private Military Companies and the Reasonable Chance of Success / Amy E. Eckert Eckert, Amy E. 62

Section 2 Jus in Bello

Chapter 5 Postheroic U.S. Warfare and the Moral Justification for Killing in War / Sebastian Kaempf Kaempf, Sebastian 79

Chapter 6 From Smart to Autonomous Weapons: Confounding Territoriality and Moral Agency / Brent J. Steele Steele, Brent J., Eric A. Heinze Heinze, Eric A. 98

Chapter 7 An Alternative to Nuclear Weapons? Proportionality, Discrimination, and the Conventional Global Strike Program / Alexa Royden Royden, Alexa 115

Chapter 8 Rethinking Intention and Double Effect / Harry D. Gould Gould, Harry D. 130

Chapter 9 Just War without Civilians / Laura Sjoberg Sjoberg, Laura 148

Section 3 Jus post Bellum

Chapter 10 Jus post Bellum: Justice in the Aftermath of War / Robert E. Williams Jr. Williams, Robert E., Jr. 167.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

KU Select 2017: Backlist Collection

BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 101105

ISBN:

9780820345604