Routledge Handbook Of Ethics And War

<P>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. </P><P>The modern history of just war has typically assumed the primacy of four particular elements: <I>jus ad bellum</I>, <I>jus in bello</I>, the state actor, and the solider. This book will put these four elements under close scrutiny, and will explore how they fare given the following challenges: </P><P>¿ What role do the traditional elements of <I>jus ad bellum</I> and <I>jus in bello</I>¿and the constituent principles that follow from this distinction¿play in modern warfare? Do they adequately account for a normative theory of war? </P><P>¿ What is the role of the state in warfare? Is it or should it be the primary actor in just war theory? </P><P>¿ 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 confl

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