Moral dilemmas of modern war torture, assassination, and blackmail in an age of asymmetric conflict
Describes the impact of asymmetric conflicts on the practices of war, discussing torture, assassination, blackmail, extortion, chemical weapons, and related tactics, and offers advice on ways to respond to the changing demands of asymmetric conflict. Asymmetric conflict is changing the way that we p...
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Cambridge, UK
Cambridge University Press
2010
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Table of Contents:
- Torture, assassination, and blackmail in an age of asymmetric conflict
- Friends, foes, or brothers in arms? the puzzle of combatant equality
- Combatants in asymmetric war
- Shooting to kill : the paradox of prohibited weapons
- Shooting to stun : the paradox of nonlethal warfare
- Murder, self-defense, or execution? the dilemma of assassination
- Human dignity or human life : the dilemmas of torture and rendition
- Noncombatants in asymmetric war
- Blackmailing the innocent : the dilemma of noncombatant immunity
- Killing the innocent : the dilemma of terrorism
- Risking our lives to save others : puzzles of humanitarian intervention
- Conclusion and afterword
- Torture, assassination, and blackmail : new norms for asymmetric conflict?
- The war in Gaza, December 2008 to January 2009