Waging War: A New Philosophical Introduction

Revised
ISBN: 978-0-19-872465-0
Verlag: Sydney University Press

Buch, Englisch, 168 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 431 g

There is now a major new interest in ethical issues about warfare emerging from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, conflict in Syria and Libya, the war on terror, and the introduction of new weapon systems, such as unmanned drones. In this re-written version of the author's classic text, Waging War, Ian Clark asks probing questions about how we think about war, the changes it is undergoing, and what exactly it is we wage when we wage war.

Waging War argues that much of what passes for ethical debate is actually a set of disagreements about what counts as war or not. This philosophical introduction provides a critical review of the various different ways in which the ethical debates are already framed, the questions that arise from these debates, and seeks to bring greater clarity and precision to the important moral arguments about political violence.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Clark, Ian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen

Über Autor(innen)

Ian Clark is currently Professor of International Relations at the University of Queensland and a Visiting Professor at the Rajaratnam School of International Studies, NTU, Singapore. He was until 2013 E. H. Carr Professor of International Politics, Aberystwyth University. He is the author of many books on IR theory and international history, most recently The Vulnerable in International Society (OUP, 2013). He is a Fellow of the British Academy, a Fellow of
the Learned Society of Wales, and an Honorary Fellow of Selwyn College, Cambridge. He now lives in Melbourne.