Ethics, Authority, and War: Non-State Actors and the Just War Tradition

Author:   E. Heinze ,  B. Steele
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
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9780230616745


Pages:   287
Publication Date:   13 January 2010
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Ethics, Authority, and War: Non-State Actors and the Just War Tradition


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In original essays written by both senior scholars as well as rising younger scholars in the field of international ethics, this volume addresses the ethics of war in an era when non-state actors are playing an increasingly prominent role in armed conflict.

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Author:   E. Heinze ,  B. Steele
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.518kg
ISBN:  

9780230616745


ISBN 10:   0230616747
Pages:   287
Publication Date:   13 January 2010
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Non-State Actors and the Just War Tradition; E.A.Heinze  & B.J.Steele From Versailles to 9/11: Non-State Actors and Just War in the Twentieth Century; C.O'Driscoll Authority and the Problem of Non-State Actors; A.F.Lang, Jr. What Happened to Punishment in the Just War Tradition?; H.D.Gould War Crimes Trials and the Just War Tradition; M.J.Struett Private Military Companies, Just War, and Humanitarian Intervention; E.A.Heinze Gender, Just War, and Non-State Actors; L.Sjoberg 'Justice is Conscience:' Hizbollah, Israel, and the Perversity of Just War; B.J.Steele  & J.L.Amoureux Jus Post Bellum , Peacebuilding, and Non-State Actors: Lessons from Afghanistan; M.Labonte Conclusion: Elusive Distinctions, Epochal Changes; N.Onuf

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The proliferation of non-state actors in the world s war zones is one of the most troubling, and ethically complex, issues confronting the world today.Bringing together many of the best new thinkers on the ethics of war, this important new volume sheds light on the problem, demonstrates its breadth and complexity to the full, and presents a range of different--but equally compelling--perspectives.As such, this book provides much rewarding food for thought and is just what is needed to help us grapple with this thorniest of moral problems. --Alexander Bellamy, Professor of International Relations and Executive Director of the Asia-Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, University of Queensland, Australia The just war tradition is a much-debated topic in international relations and too few works have tried to take seriously its implications for non-state actors. This book goes far towards addressing that yawning gap in the literature, bringing together original, tautly-argued contributions from some of the brightest young scholars in the field. The result is a text that will demand attention from students of international security and the ethics of war at all levels, from undergraduates to experienced academics, for some time to come. --Dr. Ian Hall, Senior Lecturer in International Relations, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia Studies of the just war tradition in recent years have begun to question the extent to which the dominant modern interpretations of the tradition have fore-grounded the state, emphasizing instead the origins of the tradition in non-state based political forms and questions. Now Heinze and Steele have added a further dimension into this process of rethinking; elaborating on the role that non-state actors do play, can play, and should play in the tradition. With excellent contributions from a group of largely younger scholars, this is a book that deserves to be widely read, and should be in the library of anyone who wants to think seriously about the ethics of force in the modern world --Nicholas Rengger, Professor of Political Theory and International Relations, University of St Andrews


<p>&#8220;The proliferation of non-state actors in the world&#8217;s war zones is one of the most troubling, and ethically complex, issues confronting the world today.&nbsp;Bringing together many of the best new thinkers on the ethics of war, this important new volume sheds light on the problem, demonstrates its breadth and complexity to the full, and presents a range of different--but equally compelling--perspectives.&nbsp;As such, this book provides much rewarding food for thought and is just what is needed to help us grapple with this thorniest of moral problems.&#8221;--Alexander Bellamy, Professor of International Relations and Executive Director of the Asia-Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, University of Queensland, Australia<p>&#8220;The just war tradition is a much-debated topic in international relations and too few works have tried to take seriously its implications for non-state actors. This book goes far towards addressing that yawning gap in the literature,


The proliferation of non-state actors in the world s war zones is one of the most troubling, and ethically complex, issues confronting the world today.Bringing together many of the best new thinkers on the ethics of war, this important new volume sheds light on the problem, demonstrates its breadth and complexity to the full, and presents a range of different - but equally compelling - perspectives.As such, this book provides much rewarding food for thought and is just what is needed to help us grapple with this thorniest of moral problems. - Alexander Bellamy, Professor of International Relations and Executive Director of the Asia-Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, University of Queensland, Australia The just war tradition is a much-debated topic in international relations and too few works have tried to take seriously its implications for non-state actors. This book goes far towards addressing that yawning gap in the literature, bringing together original, tautly-argued contributions from some of the brightest young scholars in the field. The result is a text that will demand attention from students of international security and the ethics of war at all levels, from undergraduates to experienced academics, for some time to come. - Dr. Ian Hall, Senior Lecturer in International Relations, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia Studies of the just war tradition in recent years have begun to question the extent to which the dominant modern interpretations of the tradition have fore-grounded the state, emphasizing instead the origins of the tradition in non-state based political forms and questions. Now Heinze and Steele have added a further dimension into this process of rethinking; elaborating on the role that non-state actors do play, can play, and should play in the tradition. With excellent contributions from a group of largely younger scholars, this is a book that deserves to be widely read, and should be in the library of anyone who wants to think seriously about the ethics of force in the modern world - Nicholas Rengger, Professor of Political Theory and International Relations, University of St Andrews


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ERIC A. HEINZE is Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Oklahoma, USA.  BRENT J STEELE is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Kansas, USA. 

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