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Title The future of just war : new critical essays / edited by Caron E. Gentry and Amy E. Eckert
Published Athens, Georgia : University of Georgia Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (1 electronic resource (192 pages))
Series Studies in security and international affairs
Studies in security and international affairs.
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
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 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. The essays in The Future of Just War seek to reorient the 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. The pursuit of these challenges involves both a reclaiming of traditional Just War principles from those who would push it toward greater permissiveness with respect to war, as well as the application of Just War principles to emerging issues, such as the growing use of robotics in war or the privatization of force. These essays share a commitment to the idea that the tradition is more about a rigorous application of Just War principles than the satisfaction of a checklist of criteria to be met before waging "just" war in the service of national interest"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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English
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Subject Just war doctrine.
War -- Moral and ethical aspects.
PHILOSOPHY -- Movements -- Pragmatism.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- Arms Control.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General.
Just war doctrine
War -- Moral and ethical aspects
Genre/Form essays.
Essays
Essays.
Essais.
Form Electronic book
Author Eckert, Amy, author, editor
Gentry, Caron E., author, editor
LC no. 2020719017
ISBN 9780820346533
0820346535
1306290716
9781306290715
0820345601
9780820353050
0820353051
9780820345604