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Privatizing War - A Moral Theory (Hardcover)
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Privatizing War - A Moral Theory (Hardcover)
Series: War, Conflict and Ethics
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This book offers a comprehensive moral theory of privatization in
war. It examines the kind of wars that private actors might wage
separate from the state and the kind of wars that private actors
might wage as functionaries of the state. The first type of war
serves to probe the ad bellum question of whether private actors
can justifiably authorize war, while the second type of war serves
to probe the in bello question of whether private actors can
justifiably participate in war. The cases that drive the analysis
are drawn from the rich and complicated history of private military
action, stretching back centuries to the Italian city-states whose
mercenaries were reviled by Machiavelli. The book also takes up the
hypothetical examples conjured by philosophers-the private
protective agencies of Robert Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia,
for example, and the private armies of Thomas More's Utopia. The
aim of this book is to propose a theory of privatization that
retains currency not only in assessing current military
engagements, but past and future ones as well. In doing so, it also
raises a set of important questions about the very enterprise of
war. This book will be of much interest to students of ethics,
political philosophy, military studies, international relations,
war and conflict studies, and security studies.
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