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Ethics and the Laws of War : the Moral Justification of Legal Norms.
This book is an examination of the permissions, prohibitions and obligations found in just war theory, and the moral grounds for laws concerning war. Pronouncing an action or course of actions to be prohibited, permitted or obligatory by just war theory does not thereby establish the moral grounds o...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2013.
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| Colección: | Contemporary security studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; Overview of the argument; 2. Rights, rules and consequences; Justifying rules by their consequences; Issues of compliance; Sub-optimalrules and satisficing; Concern for rights as the core value; 3. Challenges to the 'rule-consequentialism' concept of laws concering actions in conflict; Introduction; Rodin's first three arguments; The 'impasse problem' and the 'epistemological problem'; The compliance effect problem; The sub-optimal outcome problem.
- Moral and practical problems with developing new rulesThe 'incomplete rules problem'; Compliance problem 2
- what you can do when others break the law; Unjust rules: the independence and symmetry theses; civilian immunity; 4. Non-combatant immunity, non-uniformed combatants and illegitimate combatants; The traditional view of immunity and liability to attack; A failure of the traditional view; Culpability and weakened immunity; Objection: weakened immunity unnecessary to explain intuitions; Collective responsibility and weakened immunity; Conditions for non-responsibility; Immunity continuum.
- Three problems with this accountLegitimate, non-uniformed and illegitimate combatants; Arguments concerning non-uniformed combatants; Targeting non-uniformed combatants, and combatant rights; Conclusion; 5. Dual-use facilities, asymmetric conflict; Dual-use objects; Asymmetric conflict; Commentary on Rodin; Use of remote weapons systems; Killmister, Sparrow and Walzer; Moral symmetry and asymmetric risk; Conclusion; 6. The right of national defence; The 'bloodless invasion' arguments; More 'bloodless invasion' arguments; The value of collective self-determination.
- The 'humanitarian intervention' argumentObjections to the reductive strategy; Conclusions; 7. Humanitarian intervention; A duty to rescue; A duty to rescue means that there is a duty to engage in acts of humanitarian intervention where necessary; International law ought to include a duty of humanitarian intervention; Some objections, and responses; 8. Preventive war; Preventive war and the 'Bush doctrine'; The distinction between pre-emption and prevention; Permissible use of preventive force; Impermissible use of preventive force, permissible pre-emptive force; Rodin's conspiracy paradox.
- 9. The jus ad bellum 'legitimate authority' requirementLegitimate authority as the permission to resort to armed force; The legitimate authority requirement as embodied in public rules; Moral arguments for the public rules; Legitimate authority and non-state communities; 10. Consensus on the grounds of the laws; Overlapping consensus; Concluding remarks: just war theory and pacifism; Notes; Bibliography; Index.