Routledge handbook of ethics and war just war theory in the 21st century

Offers a comprehensive overview of contemporary extensions and alternatives to the just war tradition in the field of the ethics of war

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Other Authors: Allhoff, Fritz (Editor), Evans, Nicholas G. 1985- (Editor), Henschke, Adam 1976- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York Routledge 2013
Series:Routledge handbooks
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: not just wars: expansions and alternatives to the just war tradition
  • pt.1. Theories of war: revisiting the just war tradition Jus as bellum
  • 1. Can soldiers be expected to know whether their war is just?
  • 2. Is just war theory obsolete?
  • 3. Just war theory: going to war and collective self-deception
  • Jus in bello
  • 4. The moral foundations of the jus ad bellum/jus in bello distinction
  • 5. Jus ad vim and the just use of lethal force-short-of-war
  • 6. Revisionist just war theory and the real world: a cautiously optimistic proposal
  • Jus post bellum
  • 7. The place of just post bellum in just war considerations
  • 8. Jus post bellum: war closure in the 21st century
  • 9. Reasonable chance of success: analyzing the postwar requirements of jus ad bellum
  • Post-war policy: lessons for Iraq, Afghanistan, and beyond
  • pt.II. Faces of war: beyond states and soldiers
  • Irregular war
  • 11. Soft power, public diplomacy and just war
  • 12. Rethinking legitimate authority
  • 13. Fighting the humanitarian war: justifications and limitations
  • 14. Peacekeeper violence: managing the use of force
  • Terrorism and counterterrorism
  • 15. The war on terror and the ethics of exceptionalism
  • 16. Just war theory and counterterrorism
  • 17. Punitive warfare, counterterrorism, and jus ad bellum
  • Warfighters and moral agency
  • 18. Re-evaluating the status of noncombatants in just war theory and terrorism
  • 19. Endangering soldiers and the problem of private military contractors
  • The agency of child soldiers: rethinking the principles of discrimination
  • pt.III. Technologies of war: the future of fighting
  • Technology and just war theory
  • 21. Emerging technologies and just war theory
  • 22. Minimizing harm to combatants: nonlethal weapons, combatants' rights, and state responsibility
  • 23. Educational implications of the potential for hostile applications of advances in neuroscience
  • Uninhabited and autonomous military systems
  • 24. Unmanned droned and the ethics of war
  • 25. Autonomous robots and the future of just war theory
  • Killing in war: responsibility, liability, and lethal autonomous robots
  • Cyberwarfare
  • 27. Jus in silico: moral restrictions on the use of cyberwarfare
  • 28. Understanding just cause in cyberwarfare
  • 29 Perfidy incyberwarfare