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Outsourcing War - The Just War Tradition in the Age of Military Privatization (Hardcover)
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Outsourcing War - The Just War Tradition in the Age of Military Privatization (Hardcover)
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Recent decades have seen an increasing reliance on private military
contractors (PMCs) to provide logistical services, training,
maintenance, and combat troops. In Outsourcing War, Amy E. Eckert
examines the ethical implications involved in the widespread use of
PMCs, and in particular questions whether they can fit within
customary ways of understanding the ethical prosecution of warfare.
Her concern is with the ius in bello (right conduct in war) strand
of just war theory.Just war theorizing is generally built on the
assumption that states, and states alone, wield a monopoly on the
legitimate use of force. Who holds responsibility for the actions
of PMCs? What ethical standards might they be required to observe?
How might deviations from such standards be punished? The
privatization of warfare poses significant challenges because of
its reliance on a statist view of the world. Eckert argues that the
tradition of just war theory-which predates the international
system of states-can evolve to apply to this changing world order.
With an eye toward the practical problems of military command,
Eckert delves into particular cases where PMCs have played an
active role in armed conflict and derives from those cases the
modifications necessary to apply just principles to new agents in
the landscape of war.
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