The Ashgate research companion to military ethics / edited by James Turner Johnson and Eric D. Patterson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Johnson, James Turner.

Patterson, Eric, 1971-

Series:

Justice, international law and global security.

Justice, International Law and Global Security

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

War--Moral and ethical aspects.

War.

Just war doctrine.

Military ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (467 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Military ethics

Research companion to military ethics

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This Companion provides scholars and graduates, serving and retired military professionals, members of the diplomatic and policy communities concerned with security affairs, and legal professionals who deal with military law and with international law on armed conflicts, with a comprehensive and authoritative state-of-the-art review of current research in the area of military ethics. Topics in this volume reflect both perennial and pressing contemporary issues in the ethics of the use of military force and are written by established professionals and respected commentators.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; General Introduction: Identifying and Framing the Issues; Part I The Choice Whether to Use Military Force; Introduction to Part I; 1 The Decision to Use Military Force in Classical Just War Thinking; 2 The Decision to Use Military Force in Recent Moral Argument; 3 Contemporary International Law on the Decision to Use Armed Force; 4 The Role of the Military in the Decision to Use Armed Force; 5 Special Problems I: The Question of Preemption

6 Special Problems II: The Response to Asymmetric Warfare and Terrorism7 Special Problems III: Using Military Forcein the Frame of the Responsibility to Protect; 8 Special Problems IV: Questions Posed by Nuclear and Other Weapons of Mass Destruction; Part II Right Conduct in the Use of Military Force; Introduction to Part II; 9 Framing the Issues in Moral Terms I: Applying Just War Tradition; 10 Framing the Issues in Moral Terms II: The Kantian Perspective on Jus in Bello; 11 Framing the Issues in Moral Terms III: Rights and Right Conduct; 12 International Humanitarian Law

13 Boston to Where: The Challenges Posed by Local-Global Terrorism14 Terrorism and Ethics; 15 The Bombing of Dual-Use Targets; 16 The Ethics of Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles; 17 Targeted Killing; 18 Cyber Warfare; 19 The Moral Equality of Combatants; 20 Treatment of Prisoners and Detainees; 21 My Country, Right or Wrong: If the Cause is Just, is Anything Allowed?; 22 No Job for a Soldier? Military Ethics in Peacekeeping Operations; 23 Enforcing and Strengthening Noncombatant Immunity; 24 Understanding Proportionality in Contemporary Armed Conflict

Part III Ethics After a Conflict is OverIntroduction to Part III; 25 Security and Political Order: The Ethics of Who Is in Charge; 26 How Should This Conflict End? Implications of the End of an Armed Conflict; 27 War Crimes Tribunals after Armed Conflict; 28 Fostering Reconciliation as a Goal of Military Ethics; Part IV Perspectives from Other Cultures; Introduction to Part IV; 29 Ethics in the Islamic Tradition on War; 30 Chinese Traditions on Military Ethics; 31 The Indian Tradition; Index

Notes:

"First published 2015 by Ashgate Publishing"--t.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-317-04260-3

1-317-04261-1

1-315-61324-7

1-4724-1629-5

9781315613246

OCLC:

898421502