Editors:
- Brings the discussion of just war theory up to date, given the changes in contemporary warfare
- Discusses the extent to which military interventions, both humanitarian (Kosovo) and preventive (Iraq), are morally justified
- Considers the nature and moral characteristics of terrorism
- Addresses the question of what our response to terrorism should be and asks what moral limits there are in the "war" on terrorism
- Examines torture as a method of gathering intelligence about terrorism, asking whether scenarios like the "ticking time bomb" can ever justify it
Part of the book series: AMINTAPHIL: The Philosophical Foundations of Law and Justice (AMIN, volume 1)
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Front Matter
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Some Theoretical Background
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Front Matter
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Terrorism
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Front Matter
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Torture
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Front Matter
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About this book
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 cleansing, the global human rights movement, economic globalization, and military technology. This book asks whether just war theory is adequate to the challenges these developments pose. Just war theory provides rules for determining when it is justified to fight a war. But some have argued that the nature of contemporary war makes these rules obsolete. For example, genocidal and aggressive regimes may require the use of military force that is not strictly in self-defense, as just war theory requires. In addition, the theory provides rules for determining what the limits are on justified conduct in war. But the random violence of terrorism and the deliberately inflicted violence of torture seem endemic to our age, yet take us beyond the limits set by these rules of conduct in war. By carefully examining the phenomena of intervention, terrorism, and torture from a number of different perspectives, the essays in this book explore this set of issues with insight and clarity.
Editors and Affiliations
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Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, USA
Steven P. Lee
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Intervention, Terrorism, and Torture
Book Subtitle: Contemporary Challenges to Just War Theory
Editors: Steven P. Lee
Series Title: AMINTAPHIL: The Philosophical Foundations of Law and Justice
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-4678-0
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-4677-3Published: 27 October 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-7168-2Published: 30 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-4678-0Published: 22 November 2006
Series ISSN: 1873-877X
Series E-ISSN: 2351-9851
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 323
Topics: Political Science, Philosophy, general, Ethics, Political Philosophy, Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law