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1 online resource. |
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Studies in security and international affairs |
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Studies in security and international affairs.
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Includes index. |
| Summary |
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 di. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Caron E. Gentry and Amy E. Eckert -- Epistemic bias : legitimate authority and politically violent nonstate actors / Caron E. Gentry -- Strategizing in an era of conceptual change : security, sanctioned violence, and new military roles / Kimberly A. Hudson and Dan Henk -- Is just intervention morally obligatory? / Luke Glanville -- Private military companies and the reasonable chance of success / Amy E. Eckert -- Postheroic U.S. warfare and the moral justification for killing in war / Sebastian Kaempf -- From smart to autonomous weapons : confounding territoriality and moral agency / Brent J. Steele and Eric A. Heinze -- An alternative to nuclear weapons? : proportionality, discrimination, and the conventional global strike program / Alexa Royden -- Rethinking intention and double effect / Harry D. Gould -- Just war without civilians / Laura Sjoberg -- Jus post bellum : justice in the aftermath of war / Robert E. Williams Jr. |
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Print version record. |
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Just war doctrine.
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War -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- General.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- Arms Control.
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Just war doctrine. (OCoLC)fst00985112
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War -- Moral and ethical aspects.
(OCoLC)fst01170352
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| Added Author |
Gentry, Caron E., author, editor.
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Eckert, Amy, author, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Future of just war. Athens, Georgia : University of Georgia Press, 2014 9780820339504 (DLC) 2013020499 (OCoLC)841897242 |
| ISBN |
9780820346533 (electronic bk.) |
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0820346535 (electronic bk.) |
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1306290716 (electronic bk.) |
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9781306290715 (electronic bk.) |
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