Fritz Allhoff - Routledge Handbook of Ethics and War: Just War Theory in the 21st Century

This new Handbook offers a comprehensive overview of contemporary extensions and alternatives to the just war tradition in the field of the ethics of war.

The modern history of just war has typically assumed the primacy of four particular elements: jus ad bellum, jus in bello, the state actor, and the soldier. This book will put these four elements under close scrutiny, and will explore how they fare given the following challenges:

What role do the traditional elements of jus ad bellum and jus in belloand the constituent principles that follow from this distinctionplay in modern warfare? Do they adequately account for a normative theory of war?

What is the role of the state in warfare? Is it or should it be the primary actor in just war theory?

Can a just war be understood simply as a response to territorial aggression between state actors, or should other actions be accommodated under legitimate recourse to armed conflict?

Is the idea of combatant qua state-employed soldier a valid ethical characterization of actors in modern warfare?

What role does the technological backdrop of modern warfare play in understanding and realizing just war theories?

Over the course of three key parts, the contributors examine these challenges to the just war tradition in a way that invigorates existing discussions and generates new debate on topical and prospective issues in just war theory.

This book will be of great interest to students of just war theory, applied ethics, peace and conflict studies, and security studies.

Fritz Allhoff is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Western Michigan University and a Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at Charles Sturt University, Canberra.

Nicholas G. Evans is a doctoral candidate at the Australian National University and an Adjunct Research Associate at Charles Sturt University, Canberra.

Adam Henschke is a researcher in the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at Charles Sturt University, Canberra.

ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF ETHICS AND WAR

Just war theory in the twenty-first century

Edited by Fritz Allhoff, Nicholas G. Evans and Adam Henschke

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Routledge handbook of ethics and war : just war theory in the 21st century / edited by Fritz Allhoff, Nicholas G. Evans and Adam Henschke.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Just war doctrine--Handbooks, manuals, etc. 2. Military ethics--Handbooks, manuals, etc. 3. War--Moral and ethical aspects--Handbooks, manuals, etc. I. Allhoff, Fritz. II. Evans, Nicholas G., 1985- III. Henschke, Adam, 1976
U22.R68 2013
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2012049756

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Fritz Allhoff, Nicholas G. Evans and Adam Henschke

Jeff McMahan

Jeffrey P. Whitman

Richard Werner

Steve Viner

S. Brandt Ford

Bradley Jay Strawser

Emily Pollard

Richard M. O'Meara

Todd A. Burkhardt

Brian Orend

Michael L. Gross

Anne Schwenkenbecher

Jennifer Mei Sze Ang

Daniel H. Levine

Fritz Allhoff

Seumas Miller

Shawn Kaplan

Jason P. Blahuta

Ned Dobos

Tor Arne Berntsen and Brd Mland

Braden Allenby

Chris Mayer

Malcolm Dando

Christian Enemark

Keith Abney

Heather M. Roff

George R. Lucas Jr

Leonard Kahn

Neil C. Rowe

Keith Abney, M.A., is a senior lecturer and Research Fellow of the Ethics + Emerging Sciences Group at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. His areas of expertise include technology ethics and bioethics, especially related to human enhancements, robotics, and military technologies. He is a co-editor of Robot Ethics (MIT Press) and a contributor to other books, journal papers, and funded reports.

Braden Allenby, Ph.D., is Lincoln Professor of Engineering and Ethics; President's Professor of Civil, Environmental, and Sustainable Engineering; Professor of Law; founding director of the Center for Earth Systems Engineering and Management; founding chair of the Consortium for Emerging Technologies, Military Operations, and National Security; and associate director of the Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics, at Arizona State University. His latest books are The Techno-Human Condition (with Dan Sarewitz, 2011), Industrial Ecology and Sustainable Engineering (with Tom Graedel, 2011), The Theory and Practice of Sustainable Engineering (2012), and The Growing Gap Between Emerging Technologies and Legal-Ethical Oversight (with Gary Marchant and Joe Herkert, 2012).

Fritz Allhoff, Ph.D., is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Western Michigan University, Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (Australia), and Visiting Scholar at the University of Notre Dame's Centre for Science, Technology, and Values. He is a founding member of the International Intelligence Ethics Association, serves on the editorial board of the International Committee of Military Medicine, and is active in the Consortium for Emerging Technologies, Military Operations, and National Security. He is the author or editor of over twenty books; his latest, Terrorism, Ticking Time-Bombs, and Torture, was published by the University of Chicago Press (2012).

Jennifer Mei Sze Ang, Ph.D., is a Lecturer at the Singapore Institute of Management University. She received her Doctorate from the University of Queensland, Australia and is the author of Sartre and the Moral Limits of War and Terrorism (New York: Routledge, 2010). Jennifer has published in areas concerning ethics and politics related to works from Jean-Paul Sartre, Hegel, Arendt and Kant, and her main research interests are in the philosophy of Sartre, existentialism and phenomenology, and ethics and politics in contemporary issues.