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Autore |
Lamb Antony <1962-, > |
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Titolo |
Ethics and the laws of war : the moral justification of legal norms / / Antony Lamb |
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Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013 |
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ISBN |
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1-136-25542-7 |
0-203-10584-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (172 p.) |
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Collana |
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Contemporary security studies |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Just war doctrine |
War (International law) |
Electronic books. |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Rights, rules and consequences -- Challenges to the 'rule consequentialism' concept of laws concerning actions in conflict -- Noncombatant immunity, non-uniformed combatants and illegitimate combatants -- Dual-use facilities, asymmetric conflict -- The right of national defence -- Humanitarian intervention -- Preventive war -- The jus ad bellum 'legitimate authority' requirement -- Consensus on the grounds of the laws. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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<P>This book is an examination of the permissions, prohibitions and obligations found in just war theory, and the moral grounds for laws concerning war.</P><P>Pronouncing an action or course of actions to be prohibited, permitted or obligatory by just war theory does not thereby establish the moral grounds of that prohibition, permission or obligation; nor does such a pronouncement have sufficient persuasive force to govern actions in the public arena. So what are the moral grounds of laws concerning war, and what ought these laws to be?</P><P>Adopting the distinction between <I>jus ad bellum< |
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