Intervention, Terrorism, and Torture: Contemporary Challenges to Just War Theory

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Just war theory is the traditional approach taken to questions of the morality of war, but war today is far from traditional. Just war theory provides rules for determining when it is justified to fight a war.

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Just war theory is the traditional approach taken to questions of the morality of war, but war today is far from traditional. War has been deeply affected in recent years by a variety of social and technological developments in areas such as international terrorism, campaigns of genocide and ethnic cleansing, the global human rights movement, economic globalization, and military technology. This book asks whether just war theory is adequate to the challenges these developments pose. Just war theory provides rules for determining when it is justified to fight a war. But some have argued that the nature of contemporary war makes these rules obsolete. For example, genocidal and aggressive regimes may require the use of military force that is not strictly in self-defense, as just war theory requires. In addition, the theory provides rules for determining what the limits are on justified conduct in war. But the random violence of terrorism and the deliberately inflicted violence of torture seem endemic to our age, yet take us beyond the limits set by these rules of conduct in war. By carefully examining the phenomena of intervention, terrorism, and torture from a number of different perspectives, the essays in this book explore this set of issues with insight and clarity.

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Brings the discussion of just war theory up to date, given the changes in contemporary warfareDiscusses the extent to which military interventions, both humanitarian (Kosovo) and preventive (Iraq), are morally justifiedConsiders the nature and moral characteristics of terrorismAddresses the question of what our response to terrorism should be and asks what moral limits there are in the "war" on terrorismExamines torture as a method of gathering intelligence about terrorism, asking whether scenarios like the "ticking time bomb" can ever justify it

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Just war theory is the traditional approach taken to questions of the morality of war, but war today is far from traditional. War has been deeply affected in recent years by a variety of social and technological developments in areas such as international terrorism, campaigns of genocide and ethnic cleansing, the global human rights movement, economic globalization, and military technology. This book asks whether just war theory is adequate to the challenges these developments pose. Just war theory provides rules for determining when it is justified to fight a war. But some have argued that the nature of contemporary war makes these rules obsolete. For example, genocidal and aggressive regimes may require the use of military force that is not strictly in self-defense, as just war theory requires. In addition, the theory provides rules for determining what the limits are on justified conduct in war. But the random violence of terrorism and the deliberately inflicted violence of torture seem endemic to our age, yet take us beyond the limits set by these rules of conduct in war. By carefully examining the phenomena of intervention, terrorism, and torture from a number of different perspectives, the essays in this book explore this set of issues with insight and clarity.

Table of Contents

Just War Theory and the Challenges It Faces.- Some Theoretical Background.- A Postmodern View of Just War.- From Rights to Realism: Incoherence in Walzer's Conception of Jus in Bello.- A Realist Response to Walzer's Just and Unjust Wars.- Intervention.- Walzer and Rawls on Just Wars and Humanitarian Interventions.- Humanitarian Intervention and Relational Sovereignty.- Just War Theory Post 9/11: Perfect Terrorism and Superpower Defense.- Preventive Intervention.- Terrorism.- Law, Just War, and the International Fight Against Terrorism: Is It War?.- Determining Moral Rectitude in Thwarting Suicide Terrorist Attacks: Moral Terra Incognita.- Terrorism and the Ethics of War.- The War Against Terrorism and the "War" Against Terrorism.- Terrorism and Universal Jurisdiction.- Torture.- Humanity, Prisoners of War, and Torture.- Assessing the Prohibition Against Torture.- Liberalism, Torture, and the Ticking Bomb.- Torture and Self-Defense.- War Rape's Challenge to Just War Theory.- Prisons, POW Camps, and Interrogation Centers: Reflections on the Juridic Status of Detainees.- The Impact of Technology.- Non-Combatant Immunity in an Age of High Tech Warfare.

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Just war theory is the traditional approach taken to questions of the morality of war, but war today is far from traditional. War has been deeply affected in recent years by a variety of social and technological developments in areas such as international terrorism, campaigns of genocide and ethnic cleansing, the global human rights movement, economic globalization, and military technology. This book asks whether just war theory is adequate to the challenges these developments pose. Just war theory provides rules for determining when it is justified to fight a war. But some have argued that the nature of contemporary war makes these rules obsolete. For example, genocidal and aggressive regimes may require the use of military force that is not strictly in self-defense, as just war theory requires. In addition, the theory provides rules for determining what the limits are on justified conduct in war. But the random violence of terrorism and the deliberately inflicted violence of torture seem endemic to our age, yet take us beyond the limits set by these rules of conduct in war. By carefully examining the phenomena of intervention, terrorism, and torture from a number of different perspectives, the essays in this book explore this set of issues with insight and clarity.

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Brings the discussion of just war theory up to date, given the changes in contemporary warfare Discusses the extent to which military interventions, both humanitarian (Kosovo) and preventive (Iraq), are morally justified Considers the nature and moral characteristics of terrorism Addresses the question of what our response to terrorism should be and asks what moral limits there are in the "war" on terrorism Examines torture as a method of gathering intelligence about terrorism, asking whether scenarios like the "ticking time bomb" can ever justify it

Details ISBN1402046774 Short Title INTERVENTION TERRORISM & TORTU Pages 323 Language English ISBN-10 1402046774 ISBN-13 9781402046773 Media Book Format Hardcover DEWEY 172.42 Series Number 1 Subtitle Contemporary Challenges to Just War Theory Edited by Steven P. Lee Edition 1st Author Steven P. Lee Imprint Springer-Verlag New York Inc. Place of Publication New York, NY Country of Publication United States Illustrations XIII, 323 p. DOI 10.1604/9781402046773;10.1007/978-1-4020-4678-0 AU Release Date 2007-10-15 NZ Release Date 2007-10-15 UK Release Date 2007-10-15 Publisher Springer-Verlag New York Inc. Edition Description 1st ed. 2007. Corr. 3rd printing 2007 Series AMINTAPHIL: The Philosophical Foundations of Law and Justice Alternative 9789048171682 Audience Professional & Vocational Year 2006 Publication Date 2006-10-27 US Release Date 2006-10-27 We've got this

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