Series statement from book jacket. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Reconciliations and reparations / Catherine Lu. Method in the morality of war / Seth Lazar -- The just war framework / Helen Frowe -- Historiography of just war theory / Gregory M. Reichberg -- Deep morality and the laws of war / Jeremy Waldron -- The ethics of war up to Thomas Aquinas / Rory Cox -- Late scholastic just war theory / Daniel Schwartz -- Early modern sources of the regular war tradition / Pablo Kalmanovitz -- A richer jus ad bellum / Allen Buchanan -- Knowing when not to fight / David Luban -- National defence and political independence / David R. Mapel -- Humanitarian intervention and the modern state system / Patrick Emerton and Toby Handfield -- Territorial rights and national defence / Anna Stilz -- Last resort and proportionality / Henry Shue -- Pacifism / Cheyney Ryan -- Legitimate authority in war / Yitzhak Benbaji -- Civil war and revolution / Jonathan Parry -- The moral equality of combatants / Christian Barry and Lars Christie -- Noncombatant immunity and war-profiteering / Saba Bazargan -- Human shields / Adil Ahmad Haque -- Dimensions of intentions : ways of killing in war / Victor Tadros -- Proportionality and necessity in jus in bello / Jeff McMahan -- Terrorism / Suzanne Uniacke -- Torture : rescue, prevention, and punishment / F.M. Kamm -- Drones and robots : on the changing practice of warfare / Daniel Statman -- Ending wars / Darrel Moellendorf -- War's aftermath and the ethics of war / Cecile Fabre -- Justice after war / Jens David Ohlin -- Reconciliations and reparations / Catherine Lu.
Summary:
"Recent years have seen a resurgence of interest - among philosophers, legal scholars, and military experts - in the ethics of war. This resurgence of interest has multiple causes: escalating and persistent conflicts around the globe over the last 20 years, the growth of new forms of unconventional and asymmetrical warfare, and the appearance of new issues like targeted killings and drone strikes. Much of the most innovative theoretical and applied research over this time has radically called into question traditional modes of just war theory. This Oxford Handbook offers a guide to thinking through the ethics of war. It has two aims: to present chapters that introduce the reader to a broad range of the central topics in just war theory, and to make significant advances in each of those debates. The first section focuses on methodology, and the second section on historical just war theory in the Western tradition. The remaining sections align with the traditional categories of jus ad bellum, jus in bello, and jus post bellum - Resort, Conduct, and Aftermath."-- Book jacket.
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