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 conflict? </p><p>• Is the idea of combatant qua state-employed soldier a valid ethical characterization of actors in modern warfare? </p><p>• What role does the technological backdrop of modern warfare play in understanding and realizing just war theories?<br><br>Over the course of three key sections the contributors examine these challenges to the just war tradition in a way that invigorates existing discussions and generates new debate on topical and prospective issues in just war theory. </p><p>This book will be of great interest to students of just war theory war and ethics peace and conflict studies philosophy and security studies. </p>