Weighing lives in war / edited by Jens David Ohlin, Larry May and Claire Finkelstein.

Other author Ohlin, Jens David editor.
Other author May, Larry editor.
Other author Finkelstein, Claire Oakes editor.
Format Book
EditionFirst Edition.
PublicationOxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Copyright Date©2017
Descriptionvi, 327 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Subjects

SeriesEthics, National Security and the Rule of Law Series
Ethics, national security, and the rule of law series. ^A1355526
Contents Introduction / Jens David Ohlin, Larry May and Claire Finkelstein -- The dispensable lives of soldiers / Gabriella Blum -- Sharp wars are brief / Jens David Ohlin -- Humanity, necessity, and the rights of soldiers / Larry May -- The death of combatants : superfluous injury and unnecessary suffering in contemporary warfare / Michael L. Gross -- Proportionate defense / Jeff McMahon -- Proportionate killing : using traditional jus in bello conditions to model the relationship between liability and lesser-evil justifications for killing in war / Jovana Davidovic -- Compensation and proportionality in war / Saba Bazargan-Forward -- A theory of jus in bello proportionality / Adil Ahmad Haque -- Proportionality in warfare as a political norm / Ariel Colonomos -- The equality of combatants in asymmetric war / Claire Finkelstein -- Rewriting the AUMF : bringing guidance to executive decisions on combatancy and returning the US to the path of the War Convention / Jon Todd -- Weighing unjust lives / Andrew T. Forcehimes -- Joint and combined targeting : structure and process / Michael Schmitt, Jeffrey Biller, Sean C. Fahey, David S. Goddard, and Chad Highfill.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN9780198796176 (hbk.)
ISBN019879617X (hbk.)
ISBN9780198796183 (pbk.)
ISBN0198796188 (pbk.)

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Joyner General Stacks KZ6385 .W43 2017 ✔ Available Place Hold