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  • The Meaning of Terrorism

    by C. A. J. Coady ...
    In The Meaning of Terrorism, C. A. J. Coady clarifies competing and confusing definitions of terrorism, and of terrorist acts, that proliferate in specialist publications as well as in popular discourse. Coady aims to construct a concept of a terrorist act that both reflects a central core of these different understandings, which provides for a more coherent and fruitful discussion of terrorism ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • Messy Morality

    The Challenge of Politics

    by C. A. J. Coady ...
    Series series Uehiro Series in Practical Ethics
    Tony Coady explores the challenges that morality poses to politics. He confronts the complex intellectual tradition known as realism, which seems to deny any relevance of morality to politics, especially international politics. He argues that, although realism has many serious faults, it has lessons to teach us: in particular, it cautions us against the dangers of moralism in thinking about ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Challenges for Humanitarian Intervention

    Ethical Demand and Political Reality

    Edited by C. A. J. Coady, Ned Dobos, Sagar Sanyal ...
    Ten new essays critique the practice armed humanitarian intervention, and the 'Responsibility to Protect' doctrine that advocates its use under certain circumstances. The contributors investigate the causes and consequences, as well as the uses and abuses, of armed humanitarian intervention. One enduring concern is that such interventions are liable to be employed as a foreign policy instrument by ... Read more

    $75.59 USD

  • The Ethics of Human Enhancement

    Understanding the Debate

    Edited by Steve Clarke, Julian Savulescu, C.A.J. Coady, Alberto Giubilini, Sagar Sanyal ...
    We humans can enhance some of our mental and physical abilities above the normal upper limits for our species with the use of particular drug therapies and medical procedures. We will be able to enhance many more of our abilities in more ways in the near future. Some commentators have welcomed the prospect of wide use of human enhancement technologies, while others have viewed it with alarm, and ... Read more

    $79.19 USD

  • Military Ethics

    by Igor Primoratz ...
    Series series The International Library of Essays in Public and Professional Ethics
    Recent developments such as the 'new wars' or the growing privatisation of warfare, and the ever more sophisticated military technology, present the military with difficult ethical challenges. This book offers a selection of the best scholarly articles on military ethics published in recent decades. It gives a hearing to all the main ethical approaches to war: just war theory, consequentialism, ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

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  • The Just War Myth

    The Moral Illusions of War

    by Andrew Fiala ...
    As the war in Iraq continues and Americans debate the consequences of the war in Afghanistan, the war on terror, and the possibility of war with North Korea and Iran, war is one of the biggest issues in public debate. Andrew Fiala in The Just War Myth challenges the apparently predominant American sentiment that war can be easily justified. Even most Democrats seem to hold that opinion, despite ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • The Cambridge Handbook of the Just War

    Edited by Larry May ...
    Series series Cambridge Handbooks in Philosophy
    What makes a war just? What makes a specific weapon, strategy, or decision in war just? The tradition of Just War Theory has provided answers to these questions since at least 400 AD, yet each shift in the weapons and strategies of war poses significant challenges to Just War Theory. This book assembles renowned scholars from around the world to reflect on the most pressing problems and questions ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • Just War

    Authority, Tradition, and Practice

    by Anthony F. Lang Jr., Cian O'Driscoll, John Williams, James Turner Johnson, Chris Brown, Nigel Biggar, Laura Sjoberg, Nahed Artoul Zehr0, Tarik Kochi1, Gregory M. Reichberg2, Joseph Boyle3, Brent J. Steele4, Michael Gross5, Neta C. Crawford6, Martin L. Cook7, John Kelsay8, Nicholas Rengger9 ...
    The just war tradition is central to the practice of international relations, in questions of war, peace, and the conduct of war in the contemporary world, but surprisingly few scholars have questioned the authority of the tradition as a source of moral guidance for modern statecraft. Just War: Authority, Tradition, and Practice brings together many of the most important contemporary writers on ... Read more

    $53.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Terrorism, Security and Nationality

    An Introductory Study in Applied Political Philosophy

    by Paul Gilbert ...
    Terrorism, Security and Nationality shows how the ideas and techniques of political philosophy can be applied to the practical problems of terrorism, State violence and national identity. In doing so it clarifies a wide range of issues in applied political philosophy including ethics of war; theories of state and nation; the relationship between communities and nationalisms; human rightss and ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • The ethics of war

    Second edition

    by A. J. Coates ...
    The ethics of war explores the moral limits and possibilities of conflict. The argument proceeds from a just war standpoint which balances rules or principles against the moral capacities and dispositions of belligerents and the particular circumstances in which they act.In this enlarged second edition, a new introduction reflects on the impact of changes to just war thinking and to the practice ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • The Politics of the Veil

    by Joan Wallach Scott ...
    Series series The Public Square
    In 2004, the French government instituted a ban on the wearing of "conspicuous signs" of religious affiliation in public schools. Though the ban applies to everyone, it is aimed at Muslim girls wearing headscarves. Proponents of the law insist it upholds France's values of secular liberalism and regard the headscarf as symbolic of Islam's resistance to modernity. The Politics of the Veil is an ... Read more

    $22.39 USD

  • International Security

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Christopher S. Browning ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The subject of international security is never out of the headlines. The subjects of war and peace, military strategy, the proliferation of nuclear weapons and revisionist states remain central to the discussion, but burgeoning concerns such as climate change, migration, poverty, health, and international terrorism have complicated the field. So what really matters? The traditional prioritization ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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