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War and the Politics of Ethics (Hardcover)
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War and the Politics of Ethics (Hardcover)
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Contemporary Western war is represented as enacting the West's
ability and responsibility to help make the world a better place
for others, in particular to protect them from oppression and
serious human rights abuses. That is, war has become permissible
again, indeed even required, as ethical war. At the same time,
however, Western war kills and destroys. This creates a paradox:
Western war risks killing those it proposes to protect. This book
examines how we have responded to this dilemma and challenges the
vision of ethical war itself, exploring how the commitment to
ethics shapes the practice of war and indeed how practices come, in
turn, to shape what is considered ethical in war. The book closely
examines particular practices of warfare, such as targeting, the
use of cultural knowledge, and ethics training for soldiers. What
emerges is that instead of constraining violence, the commitment to
ethics enables and enhances it. The book argues that the production
of ethical war relies on an impossible but obscured separation
between ethics and politics, that is, the problematic politics of
ethics, and reflects on the need to make decisions at the limit of
ethics.
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