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Soft War

Just war theory focuses primarily on bodily harm, such as killing, maiming, and torture, while other harms are often overlooked. At the same time, contemporary international conflicts increasingly involve the use of unarmed tactics, employing softer alternatives or supplements to kinetic power that have not been sufficiently addressed by the ethics of war or international law. Soft war tactics include cyber warfare and economic sanctions, media warfare and propaganda, as well as nonviolent resistance as it plays out in civil disobedience, boycotts, and lawfare. While the just war tradition has much to say about hard war bullets, bombs, and bayonets it is virtually silent on the subject of soft war. Soft War: The Ethics of Unarmed Conflict illuminates this neglected aspect of international conflict.

Michael L. Gross is Professor and Head of the School of Political Science at the University of Haifa, Israel. He specializes in applied normative theory, military and medical ethics, asymmetric war, and non-kinetic warfare. He is the author of Ethics and Activism (Cambridge University Press, 1997); Bioethics and Armed Conflict (2006); Moral Dilemmas of Modern War (Cambridge University Press, 2010); Military Medical Ethics for the 21st Century (with Don Carrick, 2013); and The Ethics of Insurgency (Cambridge University Press, 2015). He has lectured widely on battlefield and military medical ethics at defense centers in Israel, the United States, and Europe.

Tamar Meisels is a political theorist and Associate Professor in the Political Science Department at Tel Aviv University. She earned her D.Phil. in Politics from Oxford University in 2001. Her primary research and teaching interests include liberal nationalism, territorial rights, and the philosophical questions surrounding war and terrorism. She is the author of Territorial Rights (2005 and 2009) and The Trouble with Terror: Liberty, Security, and the Response to Terrorism (Cambridge University Press, 2008) and Contemporary Just War: Theory and Practice (2017).

Soft War

The Ethics of Unarmed Conflict

Edited by

Michael L. Gross and Tamar Meisels

Foreword by

Michael Walzer

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DOI: 10.1017/9781316450802

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Contents

Michael L. Gross and Tamar Meisels

Jessica Wolfendale

Valerie Morkeviius

Joy Gordon

Ccile Fabre

George Lucas

Laurie R. Blank

Sebastian Kaempf

Janina Dill

James Pattison

Christopher J. Finlay

Cheyney Ryan

Ariel Colonomos

Tamar Meisels

Michael L. Gross

Contributors

Laurie R. Blank is a clinical professor of law and the Director of the International Humanitarian Law Clinic at Emory University School of Law, where she teaches the law of armed conflict and works directly with students to provide assistance to international tribunals, non-governmental organizations, and law firms around the world on cutting edge issues in humanitarian law and human rights. Professor Blank is the co-author of International Law and Armed Conflict: Fundamental Principles and Contemporary Challenges in the Law of War , a casebook on the law of war (with G. Noone, 2013). She is also the co-director of a multi-year project on military training programs in the law of war and the co-author of Law of War Training: Resources for Military and Civilian Leaders (with G. Noone, 2013).

Ariel Colonomos is Senior Research Fellow at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS Centre de Recherches Internationales) and Research Professor at Sciences Po in Paris, where he teaches courses on international relations theory and the ethics of war. He has published in the areas of international relations, the ethics of war, and political sociology. His recent books include Selling the Future The Perils of Predicting Global Politics (2016), Le Pari de la guerre: guerre preventive, guerre juste? (Denol, 2009; transl. The Gamble of War: On Justifying Preventive War , 2013), and La Morale dans les relations internationales: Rendre des comptes (Odile Jacob, 2005; transl. Moralizing International Relations: Called to Account , 2008).

Janina Dill is Assistant Professor of Normative International Theory at the Department of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science and a research fellow of the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict (ELAC) at the University of Oxford. She was previously a departmental lecturer at the University of Oxford, where she also served as Associate Director of ELAC and as Deputy Director of the Oxford Programme on the Changing Character of War (CCW). Janina Dills research focuses on international law and ethics in international relations, specifically in war. She is interested in how legal and moral imperatives interact with strategic thinking and technological developments to explain conduct in war and the development of conflict more generally. Her latest book is Legitimate Targets? Social Construction, International Law and US Bombing (Cambridge University Press, 2015).

Ccile Fabre is a senior research fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, and Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Oxford. She has written extensively on distributive justice, democracy, and the rights we have over our own body. She has just completed a two-volume project on the ethics of war and peace Cosmopolitan War (2012) and Cosmopolitan Peace (2016) and is currently working on the ethics of economic statecraft.

Christopher J. Finlay completed his Ph.D. at the Department of Modern History, Trinity College Dublin, in 2000 and he is currently Reader in Political Theory at the University of Birmingham, where he works chiefly on philosophical issues arising from political violence and war. His most recent book is Terrorism and the Right to Resist: A Theory of Just Revolutionary War (Cambridge University Press, 2015), which was supported by a British Academy Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship (awarded, 2010), and his work appears in The Journal of Political Philosophy, Political Studies, The Review of International Studies, History of Political Thought, The European Journal of International Relations , and elsewhere.

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