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Title The moral dimension of asymmetrical warfare : counter-terrorism, democratic values and military ethics / by Th. A. van Baarda and D.E.M. Verweij (eds.) ; with a foreword by Richard Dannett
Published Leiden ; Boston : Martinus Nijhoff, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 529 pages) : illustrations
Contents The moral dimension of asymmetrical warfare : an introduction / Ted van Baarda -- Questioning the resort to U.S. hegemonic military force / Harry van der Linden -- Asymmetric air war : ethical implications / Martin L. Cook and Mark Conversino -- Reframing asymmetrical warfare : beyond the just war idea / Thomas Frank -- Armed intervention and democratic dreams : small western liberal democracies and multinational intervention / Allard Wagemaker -- Asymmetric warfare and morality : from moral asymmetry to amoral symmetry? / Carl Ceulemans -- Military operations by armed UN peacekeeping missions : an application of generalized just war principles / John W. Lango -- The moral dimension of asymmetrical warfare : accountability, culpability and military effectiveness / Daren Bowyer -- British leaders and irregular warfare / David Benest -- The lesson avoided : the official legacy of the My Lai massacre / Lawrence P. Rockwood -- Culpability : senior leaders have dirty hands / Donald A. MacCuish -- Between violence and restraint : human rights, humanitarian considerations, and the Israeli military in the al-Aqsa intifada / Eyal Ben-Ari -- The phenomenon of Breaking the Silence in Israel : "witnessing" as consciousness raising strategy of Israeli ex-combatants / Erella Grassiani
Ethics in the core of officer education : some philosophical aspects for curriculum transformation / Jarmo Toiskallio -- Why people make the wrong choices : the psychology of ethical failure / J. Peter Bradley -- (Dis)respecting the law of armed conflict in asymmetrical warfare? : a consequentialist approach to a consequentialist question / Daniel S. Blocq -- Moral dynamics in culture centric warfare / Patrick Mileham -- Dilemmas in the employment of combat stress-related clinical research : the imperative of prevention / Eric Vermetten -- Politics, media and war coverage : an indexed relation? / Javier G. Marín and Óscar G. Luengo -- Asymmetrical warfare and modern digital media : an old concept changed by new technology? / Uroš Svete -- Security versus liberty? : ethical lessons from post-9/11 American counter-terrorist security politics / Wim Smit -- Saying no to torture : a moral absolute, self-righteous or just naive? / Maureen Ramsay -- Dirty war, or : how democracies can lose in the fight against terrorism / Asta Maskaliūnaitė -- Human dignity in the era of counter-terrorism / Ted van Baarda and Désiree Verweij
Summary Links the medieval traditions of jus in bello, codified by Saint Thomas Aquinas in the Christian Church nearly eight centuries ago, to examination of modern challenges and moral dilemmas relating to the ethics and laws of conflict and crises of various types in the 21st century, and in a global context among people of different faiths and beliefs
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes Print version record
Subject Asymmetric warfare -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Congresses
Counterinsurgency -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Congresses
Terrorism -- Prevention -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Congresses
Low-intensity conflicts (Military science) -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Congresses
Military ethics -- Congresses
Democracy -- Congresses
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- General.
Democracy
Low-intensity conflicts (Military science) -- Moral and ethical aspects
Military ethics
Terrorism -- Prevention -- Moral and ethical aspects
Ethics.
War.
Asymmetric warfare.
Armed forces.
Democracy.
Terrorism.
Laws of war.
Just war.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Baarda, Ted van
Verweij, Désirée.
Nederlandse Defensie Academie.
Netherlands Institute for Military Ethics.
LC no. 2009029040
ISBN 9789047424604
9047424603
128260256X
9781282602564