Intervention, Terrorism, and Torture Contemporary Challenges to Just War Theory /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Lee, Steven P. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2007.
• Θέματα: Political science.; Philosophy.; Ethics.; Political philosophy.; Private international law.; Conflict of laws.; International law.; Comparative law.; Political Science and International Relations.; Political Science.; Philosophy, general.; Political Philosophy.; Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law.

Just war theory is the traditional approach taken to questions of the morality of war, but war today is far from traditional. War has been deeply affected in recent years by a variety of social and technological developments in areas such as international terrorism, campaigns of genocide and ethnic...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Just War Theory and the Challenges It Faces
• Some Theoretical Background
• A Postmodern View of Just War
• From Rights to Realism: Incoherence in Walzer's Conception of Jus in Bello
• A Realist Response to Walzer's Just and Unjust Wars
• Intervention
• Walzer and Rawls on Just Wars and Humanitarian Interventions
• Humanitarian Intervention and Relational Sovereignty
• Just War Theory Post 9/11: Perfect Terrorism and Superpower Defense
• Preventive Intervention
• Terrorism
• Law, Just War, and the International Fight Against Terrorism: Is It War?
• Determining Moral Rectitude in Thwarting Suicide Terrorist Attacks: Moral Terra Incognita
• Terrorism and the Ethics of War
• The War Against Terrorism and the “War“ Against Terrorism
• Terrorism and Universal Jurisdiction
• Torture
• Humanity, Prisoners of War, and Torture
• Assessing the Prohibition Against Torture
• Liberalism, Torture, and the Ticking Bomb
• Torture and Self-Defense
• War Rape's Challenge to Just War Theory
• Prisons, POW Camps, and Interrogation Centers: Reflections on the Juridic Status of Detainees
• The Impact of Technology
• Non-Combatant Immunity in an Age of High Tech Warfare.