Asymmetric killing : risk avoidance, just war, and the warrior ethos / Neil C. Renic.
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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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2020.
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| Series: | Oxford scholarship online.
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Item Description: | Also issued in print: 2020. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 pages) |
| Audience: | Specialized. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191886065 (ebook) |
| DOI: | 10.1093/oso/9780198851462.001.0001 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 27, 2020) |