Ethics, Security, & the War-machine: The True Cost of the Military - Couverture rigide

Dobos, Ned

 
9780198860518: Ethics, Security, & the War-machine: The True Cost of the Military
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 019886051X ISBN 13 : 9780198860518
Editeur : Oxford University Press, 2020

Synopsis

If pacifists are correct in thinking that war is always unjust, then it follows that we ought to eliminate the possibility and temptation of ever engaging in it; we should not build war-making capacity, and if we already have, then demilitarization--or military abolition--would seem to be the appropriate course to take. On the other hand, if war is sometimes justified, as many believe, then it must be permissible to prepare for it by creating and maintaining a military establishment. Yet this view that the justifiability of war-making is also sufficient to justify war-building is mistaken.

This book addresses questions of jus ante bellum, or justice before war. Under what circumstances is it justifiable for a polity to prepare for war by militarizing? When (if ever) and why (if at all) is it morally permissible to create and maintain the potential to wage war? In doing so it highlights the ways in which a civilian population compromises its own security in maintaining a permanent military establishment, explores the moral and social costs of militarization, and evaluates whether or not these costs are worth bearing.

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À propos de l?auteur

Ned Dobos is Senior Lecturer in International and Political Studies at The University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy. He is the author of Insurrection and Intervention: The Two Faces of Sovereignty (Cambridge 2012) and co-editor of Challenges for Humanitarian Intervention: Ethical Demand and Political Reality (Oxford 2018).


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Éditeur
Oxford University Press
Date d'édition
2020
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
019886051X
ISBN 13 
9780198860518
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
182
Coordonnées du fabricant
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