Cosmopolitan War
1st Edition
Published on 14. September 2012
324 pages
978-0-19-166271-3 (ISBN)
Description
Cecile Fabre defends an ethical account of war which focuses on the individual, as a rational and moral agent, over collective groups of people. She offers a new account of just and unjust war, exploring wars of national defence, civil wars, humanitarian intervention, wars involving private military forces, and asymmetrical wars.
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Cosmopolitan War
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Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Cosmopolitanism
- 1.1. Introduction
- 1.2. Justice: a sufficientist account
- 1.2.1. On the content of justice
- 1.2.2. On the strength of justice
- 1.2.3. On the site of justice
- 1.3. On the scope of justice: the moral arbitrariness of borders
- 1.3.1. Cosmopolitan justice: a sketch
- 1.3.2. Cosmopolitan justice and patriotic partiality
- 1.4. Self-determination, group rights, and state legitimacy
- 1.5. Conclusion
- 2. Collective self-defence
- 2.1. Introduction
- 2.2. Defensive rights
- 2.3. Wars of collective self-defence
- 2.3.1. The right to wage a war of collective self-defence: a first cut
- 2.3.2. The moral status of combatants
- 2.4. Patriotic partiality and collateral damage
- 2.5. Conclusion
- 3. Subsistence wars
- 3.1. Introduction
- 3.2. Severe deprivation as a just cause for going to war
- 3.2.1. Subsistence wars and the recovery of wrongfully taken property
- 3.2.2. Severe deprivation and self-defence
- 3.2.3. War and the right to assistance
- 3.3. Subsistence war and legitimate authority
- 3.4. Killing in subsistence wars
- 3.4.1. Killing wrongdoers
- 3.4.2. Subsistence wars, poverty, and collateral damage
- 3.5 Conclusion
- 4. Civil wars
- 4.1. Introduction
- 4.2. Civil wars and the 'special relationship'
- 4.3. Non-state actors and the right to wage war
- 4.3.1. Jettisoning the requirement of legitimate authority
- 4.3.2. Three objections
- 4.4. Killing in civil wars
- 4.4.1. Killing non-combatants
- 4.4.2. Combatants' liabilities
- 4.5. Conclusion
- 5. Humanitarian intervention
- 5.1. Introduction
- 5.2. The right to intervene
- 5.3. The duty to intervene
- 5.4. Whose right? Whose duty?
- 5.5. Killing in humanitarian wars
- 5.5.1. Killing combatants
- 5.5.2. Killing non-combatants: collateral damage and harm-shifting in humanitarian wars
- 5.6. Conclusion
- 6. Commodified wars
- 6.1. Introduction
- 6.2. In defence of the (limited) marketization of war
- 6.2.1. Freedom of occupational choice
- 6.2.2. Just defensive killings
- 6.3. Five objections to mercenarism
- 6.3.1. The motivational objection
- 6.3.2. The objectification objection
- 6.3.3. The profiteering objection
- 6.3.4. The loss-of-control objection
- 6.3.5. The neutrality objection
- 6.4. Killing in commodified wars
- 6.5. Conclusion
- 7 Asymmetrical wars
- 7.1. Introduction
- 7.2. Deliberate targeting
- 7.2.1. The patriotic partiality argument
- 7.2.2. The argument from numbers
- 7.3. Human shields
- 7.4. Deceiving the enemy
- 7.5. Just combatants, unjust tactics
- 7.6. Conclusion
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
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