Ethics and the laws of war : the moral justification of legal norms / / Antony Lamb
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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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| Pubblicazione: | Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (172 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 172/.42 |
| Soggetto topico: | Just war doctrine |
| War (International law) | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | <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< |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Ethics and the laws of war |
| ISBN: | 1-136-25542-7 |
| 0-203-10584-2 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910465684203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Contemporary security studies.