War and self-defense

When is it right to go to war? The most persuasive answer to this question has always been 'in self-defence'. David Rodin shows what's wrong with this answer. He proposes a comprehensive new theory of the right of self-defence which resolves many of the perplexing questions that have...

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Main Author: Rodin, David (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford, UK Clarendon Press 2002
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300 |a xvi, 213 pages  |b illustrations  |c 22 cm 
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index 
505 0 |a Introduction: The argument -- The status of moral claims -- War and consequentialism -- Part I: Self-defense -- Rights -- Hohfeld's building blocks -- Logical structure of rights -- Having a right and being in the right -- Justification and excuse -- Model of defensive rights -- A three-legged stool -- Defense as a derivative right -- Limits on the right: necessity, imminence, proportionality -- Bounds of proportionality -- Consequences and forced choice -- The lesser evil -- Forced choice -- The resilience of responsibility -- Grounding self-defense in rights -- Forfeiture and rights of limited scope -- The role of fault -- Innocent threats and innocent aggressors -- Objective wrongdoing -- Moral subjects -- Variety of excuses -- Part II: National-defense -- International law -- National-defense in international law -- Limits of the right -- Need for a normative foundation -- War and defense of persons -- Two levels of war -- Reductive strategy -- Imminent and conditional threats -- War and the protection of persons -- War and the common life -- Political association -- The character of common lives -- Communal integrity and self-determination -- Myth of descrete communities -- War, responsibility, and law enforcement -- Paradox in the just war theory -- Responsibility of soldiers -- War and law enforcement -- Argument for a universal state -- Conclusion: Morality and realism. 
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