The morality of defensive war
By: edited by Cécile Fabre and Seth Lazar
Edition: First edition.
Series: Mind Association occasional series; Mind Association occasional series
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Oxford; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9780199682836
Subjects: War (Philosophy); War; Moral and ethical aspects
Description: International law and conventional morality grant that states may stand ready to defend their borders with lethal force. But what grounds the permission to kill for the sake of political sovereignty and territorial integrity? In this book leading theorists address this vexed issue, and set the terms of future debate over national defence.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1.; title: Introduction  -- Cécile Fabre and Seth Lazar -- 2.; title: National defence, self-defence, and the problem of political aggression  -- Seth Lazar -- 3.; title: Understanding the political defensive priviledge  -- Patrick Emerton and Toby Handfield -- 4.; title: The myth of national self-defense  -- David Rodin -- 5.; title: Cosmopolitanism and wars of self-defence  -- Cécile Fabre -- 6.; title: What rights may be defended by means of war?  -- Jeff McMahan -- 7.; title: Distributive justice, human rights, and territorial integrity  -- Yitzhak Benbaji -- 8.; title: Collective self-determination, institutions of justice, and wars of national defence  -- Margaret Moore -- 9.; title: Territorial rights and national defence  -- Anna Stilz -- 10.; title: Democracy, defence, and the threat of intervention -- Christopher Kutz.