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Author | : Neil C. Renic |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 2020-04-29 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0198851464 |
This book offers an engaging and historically informed account of the moral challenge of radically asymmetric violence -- warfare conducted by one party in the near-complete absence of physical risk, across the full scope of a conflict zone. What role does physical risk and material threat play in the justifications for killing in war? And crucially, is there a point at which battlefield violence becomes so one-directional as to undermine the moral basis for its use? In order to answers these questions, Asymmetric Killing delves into the morally contested terrain of the warrior ethos and Just War Tradition, locating the historical and contemporary role of reciprocal risk within both. This book also engages two historical episodes of battlefield asymmetry, military sniping and manned aerial bombing. Both modes of violence generated an imbalance of risk between opponents so profound as to call into question their permissibility. These now-resolved controversies will then be contrasted with the UAV-exclusive violence of the United States, robotic killing conducted in the absence of a significant military ground presence in conflict theatres such as Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia. As will be revealed, the radical asymmetry of this latter case is distinct, undermining reciprocal risk at the structural level of war. Beyond its more resolvable tension with the warrior ethos, UAV-exclusive violence represents a fundamental challenge to the very coherence of the moral justifications for killing in war.
Author | : Neil C. Renic |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2020-04-30 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 019259222X |
This book offers an engaging and historically informed account of the moral challenge of radically asymmetric violence — warfare conducted by one party in the near-complete absence of physical risk, across the full scope of a conflict zone. What role does physical risk and material threat play in the justifications for killing in war? And crucially, is there a point at which battlefield violence becomes so one-directional as to undermine the moral basis for its use? In order to answers these questions, Asymmetric Killing delves into the morally contested terrain of the warrior ethos and Just War Tradition, locating the historical and contemporary role of reciprocal risk within both. This book also engages two historical episodes of battlefield asymmetry, military sniping and manned aerial bombing. Both modes of violence generated an imbalance of risk between opponents so profound as to call into question their permissibility. These now-resolved controversies will then be contrasted with the UAV-exclusive violence of the United States, robotic killing conducted in the absence of a significant military ground presence in conflict theatres such as Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia. As will be revealed, the radical asymmetry of this latter case is distinct, undermining reciprocal risk at the structural level of war. Beyond its more resolvable tension with the warrior ethos, UAV-exclusive violence represents a fundamental challenge to the very coherence of the moral justifications for killing in war.
Author | : Neil C. Renic |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Electronic books |
ISBN | : 9780191886065 |
This book examines the moral right to kill in war, and the extent to which this right is challenged by the growing capability of certain states to kill with little or no physical risk to their own forces.
Author | : Abram de Swaan |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 2015-01-28 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0300210671 |
The twentieth century was among the bloodiest in the history of humanity. Untold millions were slaughtered. How people are enrolled in the service of evil is a question that continues to bedevil. In this trenchant book, Abram de Swaan offers a taxonomy of mass violence that focuses on the rank-and-file perpetrators, examining how murderous regimes recruit them and create what De Swaan calls the "killing compartments” that make possible the worst abominations without apparent moral misgiving, without a sense of personal responsibility, and, above all, without pity. De Swaan wonders where extreme violence comes from and where it goes—seemingly without a trace—when the wild and barbaric gore is over. And what about the perpetrators themselves? Are they merely and only the product of external circumstance? Or is there something in their makeup that disposes them to become mass murderers? Drawing on a wide range of disciplines, including sociology, anthropology, political science, history, and psychology, De Swaan sheds new light on an urgent and intractable pathology that continues to poison peoples all over the world.
Author | : Matthew Grossmann |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 417 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0190626607 |
The Republican Party is the vehicle of an ideological movement whereas the Democratic Party is a coalition of social groups with concrete policy concerns. Democrats prefer a more moderate party leadership that makes compromises, whereas Republicans favor a more conservative party leadership that sticks to principles. Each party finds popular support for its approach because the American public simultaneously favors liberal positions on specific policy issues and conservative views on the broader role of government.
Author | : Claire Oakes Finkelstein |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 518 |
Release | : 2012-03 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0199646481 |
The controversy surrounding targeted killings represents a crisis of conscience for policymakers, lawyers and philosophers grappling with the moral and legal limits of the war on terror. This text examines the legal and philosophical issues raised by government efforts to target suspected terrorists.
Author | : Thomas B. Hunter |
Publisher | : Thomas Hunter |
Total Pages | : 55 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Assassination |
ISBN | : 143925205X |
This is an objective, strategic assessment of the role, usefulness, and logistical concerns posed by state-sponsored targeted killing and its overall efficiency in the current war on global terrorism.
Author | : Michael L. Gross |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521866154 |
A practical guide for policy makers, military officers, students, and anyone else interested in asymmetric conflicts.
Author | : SCOTT NICHOLAS. KAMIENSKI ROMANIUK (LUKASZ.) |
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Release | : 2017 |
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ISBN | : 9781498759045 |
Author | : Roger W. Barnett |
Publisher | : Potomac Books |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
Possible asymmetrical warfare scenarios include launching chemical, biological, or suicide attacks; taking indiscriminate actions against critical infrastructure; using hostages or human shields; deliberately destroying the environment; and targeting noncombatants.".