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Author: Steven P. Lee
Published Date: 15 Oct 2007
Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Language: English
Book Format: Hardback::323 pages
ISBN10: 1402046774
Dimension: 210x 297x 22.61mm::1,440g
Download Link: Intervention, Terrorism, and Torture : Contemporary Challenges to Just War Theory

The Ethics of War and Peace is a lively introduction to one of the oldest but still most relevant ethical debates. Focusing on the philosophical questions surrounding the ethics of modern war, Helen Frowe presents contemporary just war theory in a stimulating and accessible way. This 2nd edition includes new material on weapons and technology, and humanitarian intervention, in addition to INTERVENTION, TERRORISM, AND TORTURE Contemporary Challenges to Just War Theory Edited STEVEN P. LEE Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY, U.S.A. [DOWNLOAD] Intervention, Terrorism, and Torture: Contemporary Challenges to Just War Theory . Steven P. Lee. Book file PDF easily for everyone and every Weiner is the author of "The Torture Memos and Accountability" in the American Society of International Law Insight and co-author of International Law. Other publications include "Law, Just War, and the International Fight Against Terrorism: Is It War?" in Intervention, Terrorism, and Torture: Contemporary Challenges to Just War Theory. Download Citation | Intervention, terrorism, and torture: Contemporary challenges to just war theory | Just war theory is the traditional approach taken to questions of the morality of war, but Just war theory is typically considered to be an essential rights-based or deontological theory. Yet, as we have defined it here - as the attempt to distinguish between ethical justifiable and unjustifiable uses of organized armed forces - one might take a utilitarian approach to just war theory instead. During the 1971 Bangladesh war for independence, members of the Pakistani military and Razakar supposedly raped between 200,000 and 400,000 Bangladeshi women and girls in a systematic campaign of genocidal rape.[1][2][3][4] During the war, some writers believe that a fatwa in Bangladesh was declared that the Bengali freedom fighters were 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 a variety of social and technological developments in areas such as international terrorism, campaigns of genocide and ethnic cleansing, the global human rights movement, economic globalization, and military technology. About the Speakers: Abraham Sofaer was appointed the first George P. Shultz Distinguished Scholar and Senior Fellow at Stanford s Hoover Institution in 1994. Sofaer's work focuses on the power over war within the US government and on issues related to international law, terrorism, diplomacy, and national security. His most recent books are The Best Defense?: Even political leaders sometimes appeal to the Theory for guidance or justification. Ten days before the United States invaded Iraq in 2003, Jimmy Carter argued in The New York Times that an invasion would be wrong because it would violate the just war requirements of last resort, discrimination, proportionality and legitimate authority though he regrettably managed to misinterpret all four. Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders Intervention, terrorism, and torture:contemporary challenges to just war theory. Intervention, terrorism and torture: contemporary challenges to just war theory. AMINTAPHIL: The Philosophical Foundations of Law And Justice 1. Dordrecht: Springer, 2007, 323 pp. May, Larry, Eric Rovie and Steve Viner, The morality of war: classical and contemporary readings. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2006, 463 Intervention, Terrorism, and Torture: Contemporary Challenges to Just War Humanitarian Intervention Eight Theories, Diametros 23 (March 2010), pp. He writes on issues in social, moral, and political philosophy, especially on matters of morality and war. He is the author of Morality, Prudence, and Nuclear Weapons (1993; 1996), the editor of Intervention, Terrorism, and Torture: Contemporary Challenges to Just War Theory (forthcoming 2006), and the coeditor of Ethics and Weapons of Mass The Ethics of War and Peace is a lively introduction to one of the oldest but still most relevant ethical debates. Focusing on the philosophical questions surrounding the ethics of modern war, Helen Frowe presents contemporary just war theory in a stimulating and accessible way. The most famous way of ethically assessing war is to use 'Just War Theory'; landmines, torture, chemicals and current debate is concerned with drones. In all conflicts, including those considered to be acts of terrorism or insurgency. And when we come to proportionality, the contemporary debate is particularly fraught. Torture: Contemporary Challenges to Just War Theory AMINTAPHIL: The Philosophical Foundations of Law and Justice Series, (Vol. 1.: Springer, 2007) specifically Lee's Introduction, "Just War Theory and the Challenges is Faces," and William Murnion's "A Postmodern View of Just War". 5 Brian Orend, The Morality of War 22-26. Many of the most important and contested controversies in modern war receive comprehensive and targeted killing, the bombing of civilians in war, humanitarian intervention, and the invasion of Print Starting at just 20.75 His previous books include The Ethics of War: Shared Problems in Different Traditions and War The Just War Theory as an inadequate response to Terrorism in the light of the jus ad bellum principles. Richard P Chelin. Intervention, Terrorism and Torture: Contemporary Challenges To The Just War Theory. [online book], Dordrecht: Springer, 171 -185. where they face a real risk of torture or other serious human rights abuse, Specific challenges related to the definition of terrorism and the principle of legality are addressed in of victims and foster the involvement of civil society in a global campaign constitute war crimes under international law, for which individuals. Terrorism and Universal Jurisdiction, in Steven Lee ed., Intervention, Terrorism and Torture: Contemporary Challenges to Just War Theory (Dordrecht, the Netherlands: Springer, 2006), 203-217 Han Fei, in Ian P. McGreal ed., Great Thinkers of the Eastern World (New York: HaperCollins, 1995), 44 To the extent that Just War Theory is followed, it is a prescription for suicide for innocent nations, and thus a profoundly unjust code. All forms of Just War Theory provide guidelines that fall into two categories: justice in entering a war, and justice in waging a war.

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