Asymmetric Killing
«Renic (Univ. of Hamburg, Germany) offers a theoretically and historically grounded framework for determining when violence in war is no longer moral... Highly recommended. General readers through faculty; professionals.»
R. P. Lorenzo, Prairie View A&M University, CHOICE
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. Les mer
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.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Oxford University Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780198851462
- Utgivelsesår
- 2020
- Format
- 25 x 17 cm
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«Renic (Univ. of Hamburg, Germany) offers a theoretically and historically grounded framework for determining when violence in war is no longer moral... Highly recommended. General readers through faculty; professionals.»
R. P. Lorenzo, Prairie View A&M University, CHOICE