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><P></P>