Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Just and Unjust Warriors: The Moral and Legal Status of Soldiers

4.6/5 ( ratings)

Can a soldier be held responsible for fighting in a war that is illegal or unjust? This is the question at the heart of a new debate that has the potential to profoundly change our understanding of the moral and legal status of warriors, wars, and indeed of moral agency itself. The debate pits
a widely shared and legally entrenched principle of war-that combatants have equal rights and equal responsibilities irrespective of whether they are fi ghting in a war that is just or unjust-against a set of striking new arguments. These arguments challenge the idea that there is a separation
between the rules governing the justice of going to war and the rules governing what combatants can do in war . If ad bellum and in bello rules are connected in the way these new arguments suggest, then many aspects of just war theory and laws of war would
have to be rethought and perhaps reformed.

This book contains eleven original and closely argued essays by leading figures in the ethics and laws of war and provides an authoritative treatment of this important new debate. The essays both challenge and defend many deeply held convictions: about the liability of soldiers for crimes of
aggression, about the nature and justifiability of terrorism, about the relationship between law and morality, the relationship between soldiers and states, and the relationship between the ethics of war and the ethics of ordinary life.

This book is a project of the Oxford Leverhulme Programme on the Changing Character of War.

Language: English

Pages: 272

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Release: October 17, 2010

ISBN: 019959323X

ISBN 13: 9780199593231

Just and Unjust Warriors: The Moral and Legal Status of Soldiers

4.6/5 ( ratings)

Can a soldier be held responsible for fighting in a war that is illegal or unjust? This is the question at the heart of a new debate that has the potential to profoundly change our understanding of the moral and legal status of warriors, wars, and indeed of moral agency itself. The debate pits
a widely shared and legally entrenched principle of war-that combatants have equal rights and equal responsibilities irrespective of whether they are fi ghting in a war that is just or unjust-against a set of striking new arguments. These arguments challenge the idea that there is a separation
between the rules governing the justice of going to war and the rules governing what combatants can do in war . If ad bellum and in bello rules are connected in the way these new arguments suggest, then many aspects of just war theory and laws of war would
have to be rethought and perhaps reformed.

This book contains eleven original and closely argued essays by leading figures in the ethics and laws of war and provides an authoritative treatment of this important new debate. The essays both challenge and defend many deeply held convictions: about the liability of soldiers for crimes of
aggression, about the nature and justifiability of terrorism, about the relationship between law and morality, the relationship between soldiers and states, and the relationship between the ethics of war and the ethics of ordinary life.

This book is a project of the Oxford Leverhulme Programme on the Changing Character of War.

Language: English

Pages: 272

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Release: October 17, 2010

ISBN: 019959323X

ISBN 13: 9780199593231

More books from Henry Shue

Basic Rights: Subsistence, Affluence, and U.S. Foreign Policy

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Climate Ethics: Essential Readings

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Preemption: Military Action and Moral Justification

Climate Justice: Vulnerability and Protection

4.2/5 ( ratings)

The American Way of Bombing: Changing Ethical and Legal Norms, from Flying Fortresses to Drones

4.5/5 ( ratings)

Nuclear Deterrence and Moral Restraint

The Pivotal Generation: Why We Have a Moral Responsibility to Slow Climate Change Right Now

The Border That Joins: Mexican Migrants & U. S. Responsibility

Fighting Hurt: Rule and Exception in Torture and War

Preemption: Military Action and Moral Justification. the Oxford-Leverhulme Programme on the Changing Character of War.

Autodeterminación y secesión

Rate this book!

Write a review?