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Morality of Defensive War

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  • "Conventional just war theory-grounded in the founders of public international law-has three central tenets. First, unprovoked military aggression against a political community justifies the recourse to lethal force. Second, combatants on either side of a conflict are under an equally strict duty not to intentionally kill noncombatants. And third, combatants are equally liable to be killed, regardless of whether their side went to war justifiably. In recent years, these principles of national defence, noncombatant immunity, and the moral equality of combatants have come under profound scrutiny from a revisionist group of just war theorists, who have applied the tools of contemporary analytical moral and political philosophy to the morality of war, and found the existing arguments for these conventional positions wanting. The success of the revisionists' critical work, however, has not been matched by their delivery of positive alternatives to the conventional orthodoxy. This is particularly noticeable with respect to the morality of defensive wars, which their individualist, self-defence based model of war seems particularly ill-equipped to explain. In this book, the contributors redress that imbalance. The first part sets up the problem for contemporary just war theory, explaining why there is such a profound tension between the two models. The second part offers a response to that problem. The third part looks beyond the resources of the contemporary revisionist consensus, seeking to justify defensive war by appeal not only to individual human rights, but also to other, more collectivist values."
  • "International law and conventional morality grant that states may stand ready to defend their borders with lethal force. But what grounds the permission to kill for the sake of political sovereignty and territorial integrity? In this book leading theorists address this vexed issue, and set the terms of future debate over national defence."

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  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Aufsatzsammlung"@en
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  • "Morality of Defensive War"@en
  • "The morality of defensive war"
  • "The morality of defensive war"@en

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