Moral dilemmas of modern war torture, assassination, and blackmail in an age of asymmetric conflict
Asymmetric conflict is changing the way that we practise and think about war. Torture, rendition, assassination, blackmail, extortion, direct attacks on civilians, and chemical weapons are all finding their way to the battlefield despite longstanding international prohibitions. This book offers a pr...
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Cambridge University Press
2010
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Torture, assassination, and blackmail in an age of asymmetric conflict
- Friends, foes, or brothers in arms? the puzzle of combatant equality
- Combatants in asymmetric war
- Shooting to kill : the paradox of prohibited weapons
- Shooting to stun : the paradox of nonlethal warfare
- Murder, self-defense, or execution? the dilemma of assassination
- Human dignity or human life : the dilemmas of torture and rendition
- Noncombatants in asymmetric war
- Blackmailing the innocent : the dilemma of noncombatant immunity
- Killing the innocent : the dilemma of terrorism
- Risking our lives to save others : puzzles of humanitarian intervention
- Conclusion and afterword
- Torture, assassination, and blackmail : new norms for asymmetric conflict?
- The war in Gaza, December 2008 to January 2009