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Ethics and war in the 21st century / Christopher Coker.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: LSE international studiesPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2008Description: xiii, 201 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0415452821
  • 9780415452823
  • 0415452805
  • 9780415452809
Other title:
  • Ethics and war in the twenty-first century
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 172.42 22
LOC classification:
  • U21.2 .C6396 2008
Contents:
1. Fighting Terrorism -- 1.1. A New Discourse on War? -- 1.2. Richard Rorty and the Ethics of War -- 2. Etiquettes of Atrocity -- 2.1. Etiquettes of Atrocity -- 2.2. Discourses on War -- 2.3. Keeping the Discourse: The United States and Vietnam -- 2.4. Carl Schmitt and the Theory of the Partisan -- 3. Changing the Discourse -- 3.1. Germany and the Eastern Front 1941-5 -- 3.2. France and Algeria 1955-8 -- 3.3. Israel and the Intifada -- 3.4. Conclusion -- 4. A New Discourse? -- 4.1. The War on Terror - Is it a War? -- 4.2. Excluding Unlawful Combatants -- 4.3. Network Warfare -- 4.4. Networked Ethics -- 5. Grammars of Killing -- 5.1. Grammars of Killing -- 5.2. Respecting our Enemies -- 5.3. Non-Lethal Weapons -- 6. The Unconditional Imperative -- 6.1. Jaspers and the Warrior Ethos -- 6.2. The Micromanagement of the Battlefield -- 6.3. Corporate Warriors? -- 6.4. Asimov's Children -- 7. Back to the Greeks -- 7.1. Back to the Greeks? -- 7.2. Simone Weil and The Iliad -- 7.3. Thucydides and the Melian Dialogue -- 7.4. What's he to Hecuba? -- 8. The Heuristics of Fear.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-192) and index.

1. Fighting Terrorism -- 1.1. A New Discourse on War? -- 1.2. Richard Rorty and the Ethics of War -- 2. Etiquettes of Atrocity -- 2.1. Etiquettes of Atrocity -- 2.2. Discourses on War -- 2.3. Keeping the Discourse: The United States and Vietnam -- 2.4. Carl Schmitt and the Theory of the Partisan -- 3. Changing the Discourse -- 3.1. Germany and the Eastern Front 1941-5 -- 3.2. France and Algeria 1955-8 -- 3.3. Israel and the Intifada -- 3.4. Conclusion -- 4. A New Discourse? -- 4.1. The War on Terror - Is it a War? -- 4.2. Excluding Unlawful Combatants -- 4.3. Network Warfare -- 4.4. Networked Ethics -- 5. Grammars of Killing -- 5.1. Grammars of Killing -- 5.2. Respecting our Enemies -- 5.3. Non-Lethal Weapons -- 6. The Unconditional Imperative -- 6.1. Jaspers and the Warrior Ethos -- 6.2. The Micromanagement of the Battlefield -- 6.3. Corporate Warriors? -- 6.4. Asimov's Children -- 7. Back to the Greeks -- 7.1. Back to the Greeks? -- 7.2. Simone Weil and The Iliad -- 7.3. Thucydides and the Melian Dialogue -- 7.4. What's he to Hecuba? -- 8. The Heuristics of Fear.

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