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The just war tradition is an evolving body of tenets for determining when resorting to war is just and how war may be justly executed. Rethinking the Just War Tradition provides a timely exploration in light of new security threats that have emerged since the end of the Cold War, including ongoing conflicts in the Middle East, threats of terror attacks, and genocidal conflicts within states. The contributors are philosophers, political scientists, a U.S. Army officer, and a senior analyst at the Center for Defense Information. They scrutinize some familiar themes in just war theory from fresh and original angles, and also explore altogether new territory. The diverse topics considered include war and the environment, justice in the ending of war, U.S. military hegemony, a general theory of just armed-conflict principles, supreme emergencies, the distinction between combatants and noncombatants, child soldiers, the moral equality of all soldiers, targeted assassination, preventive war, right authority, and armed humanitarian intervention. Clearly written and free of jargon, this book illustrates how the just war tradition can be rethought and applied today.
Preface
Acknowledgments

Introduction
Michael W. Brough, John W. Lango, and Harry van der Linden

Part I. THEORY

1. The Nature of War and Peace: Just War Thinking, Environmental Ethics, and Environmental Justice
Mark Woods

2. Jus Post Bellum and International Conflict: Order, Justice, and Reconciliation
Eric Patterson

3. Just War Theory and U.S. Military Hegemony
Harry van der Linden

4. Generalizing and Temporalizing Just War Principles: Illustrated by the Principle of Just Cause
John W. Lango

Part II. NONCOMBATANTS AND COMBATANTS

5. Just War Theory and Killing the Innocent
Frederik Kaufman

6. When Less Is Not More: Expanding the Combatant/Noncombatant Distinction
Pauline Kaurin

7. Just War Theory and Child Soldiers
Reuben Brigety II and Rachel Stohl

8. Dehumanization of the Enemy and the Moral Equality of Soldiers
Michael W. Brough

Part III. INTERVENTION AND LAW

9. Rethinking the Ban on Assassination: Just War Principles in the Age of Terror
Whitley R. P. Kaufman

10. Preventive War and Lawful Constraints on the Use of Force: An Argument against International Vigilantism
Jordy Rocheleau

11. Faith, Force, or Fellowship: The Future of Right Authority
Hartley S. Spatt

12. Violent Civil Disobedience: Defending Human Rights, Rethinking Just War
Robert W. Hoag

Appendix
Just War Principles: An Introduction with Further Reading

Contributors
Index

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Philosophie

Éthique et morale

Ethique et morale

International relations

Philosophy

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Publié par	State University of New York Press
Date de parution	01 février 2012
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780791479698
Langue	English
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Rethinking the Just War Tradition

E D I T E D B Y Michael W. Brough, John W. Lango, Harry van der Linden

Rethinking the Just War Tradition

SUNY series, Ethics and the Military Profession

George R. Lucas Jr., editor

Rethinking the Just War Tradition

Edited by Michael W. Brough John W. Lango Harry van der Linden

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Published by State University of New York Press, Albany

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Rethinking the just war tradition / [edited by] Michael W. Brough, John W. Lango, Harry van der Linden. p. cm. — (SUNY series, Ethics and the military profession) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978-0-7914-7155-5 (hardcover : alk. paper) ISBN-13: 978-0-7914-7156-2 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Just war doctrine. I. Brough, Michael W., 1970– II. Lango, John W. III. Van der Linden, Harry, 1950–

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Preface

Acknowledgments

C O N T E N T S

Introduction Michael W. Brough, John W. Lango, and Harry van der Linden

PART I. THEORY

1 The Nature of War and Peace: Just War Thinking, Environmental Ethics, and Environmental Justice Mark Woods

2Jus Post Bellumand International Conflict: Order, Justice, and Reconciliation Eric Patterson

3 Just War Theory and U.S. Military Hegemony Harry van der Linden

4 Generalizing and Temporalizing Just War Principles: Illustrated by the Principle of Just Cause John W. Lango

PART II. NONCOMBATANTS AND COMBATANTS

5 Just War Theory and Killing the Innocent Frederik Kaufman

6 When Less IsNotMore: Expanding the Combatant/Noncombatant Distinction Pauline Kaurin

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7 Just War Theory and Child Soldiers Reuben Brigety II and Rachel Stohl

8 Dehumanization of the Enemy and the Moral Equality of Soldiers Michael W. Brough

PART III. INTERVENTION AND LAW

9 Rethinking the Ban on Assassination: Just War Principles in the Age of Terror Whitley R. P. Kaufman

10 Preventive War and Lawful Constraints on the Use of Force: An Argument against International Vigilantism Jordy Rocheleau

11 Faith, Force, or Fellowship: The Future of Right Authority Hartley S. Spatt

12 Violent Civil Disobedience: Defending Human Rights, Rethinking Just War Robert W. Hoag

Appendix

Just War Principles: An Introduction with Further Reading

Contributors

Index

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P R E F A C E

The purpose of this volume, adumbrated in its title, is to rethink the just war tradition. As the table of contents indicates, the authors seek to rethink that tradition in a variety of ways. In addition to such familiar topics as noncombatant immunity, supreme emergency, and terrorism, some unusual topics are explored—for example, child soldiers,jus post bellumprinciples, and environmental justice. The editors want to stress that this volume is not intended to advocate or promote a unified con-ception of just war theory, for the authors write from diverse viewpoints. The volume contains essays representative of a number of disciplines, and a number of conceptual methodologies and perspectives. Although most are philosophers, our contributors also include scholars of politi-cal science and literature, as well as a number with relevant military or nongovernmental organization experience. As editors, we elected not to assign projects but instead asked our writers to choose their own direc-tions. The issues they have chosen to explore are not, of course, com-prehensive—no volume this size that seeks to “rethink the just war tra-dition” could be. But the variety of our authors’ backgrounds and their chosen topics has resulted in a germane, variegated collection, one that examines the just war tradition through a number of important lenses. Our intent has been to collect timely, stimulating papers for an audience that is willing to engage our subject. We include in this audi-ence scholars in the field of war and morality, but other readers, as well. The book has been written with an eye to making it valuable to those who lack an in-depth understanding of the tradition: it is designed to be accessible to students, as well as interested general read-ers. Accordingly, we have included an appendix containing an intro-duction to just war principles and some suggestions for further read-ing. Moreover, we hope the book will be of value to practitioners—to political and military leaders. Of course, in democratic societies, we are in a sense all practitioners. Whenever war is declared by one’s state, it is declared in one’s name, and one should struggle to make sure that the wars one’s state fights are just.

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