Just War scholarship has adapted to contemporary crises and
situations. But its adaptation has spurned debate and
conversation--a method and means of pushing its thinking forward.
Now the Just War tradition risks becoming marginalized. This
concern may seem out of place as Just War literature is
proliferating, yet this literature remains welded to traditional
conceptualizations of Just War. Caron E. Gentry and Amy E. Eckert
argue that the tradition needs to be updated to deal with substate
actors within the realm of legitimate authority, private military
companies, and the questionable moral difference between the use of
conventional and nuclear weapons. Additionally, as recent policy
makers and scholars have tried to make the Just War criteria
legalistic, they have weakened the tradition's ability to draw from
and adjust to its contemporaneous setting.
The essays in "The Future of Just War" seek to reorient the
tradition around its core concerns of preventing the unjust use of
force by states and limiting the harm inflicted on vulnerable
populations such as civilian noncombatants. The pursuit of these
challenges involves both a reclaiming of traditional Just War
principles from those who would push it toward greater
permissiveness with respect to war, as well as the application of
Just War principles to emerging issues, such as the growing use of
robotics in war or the privatization of force. These essays share a
commitment to the idea that the tradition is more about a rigorous
application of Just War principles than the satisfaction of a
checklist of criteria to be met before waging "just" war in the
service of national interest.
General
| Imprint: |
University of Georgia Press
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| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Series: |
Studies in Security and International Affairs |
| Release date: |
2014 |
| First published: |
2014 |
| Editors: |
Caron E. Gentry
• Amy E. Eckert
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| Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 16mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Hardcover - Cloth over boards
|
| Pages: |
200 |
| Edition: |
New |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-8203-3950-4 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
Warfare & defence >
General
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| LSN: |
0-8203-3950-4 |
| Barcode: |
9780820339504 |
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