Weighing lives in war /
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Oxford University Press,
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Publisher Address: | Oxford, United Kingdom : |
Publication Dates: |
2017. ©2017 |
Literature type: | eBook |
Language: | English |
Edition: | First edition. |
Series: |
Ethics, National Security and the Rule of Law Series
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Online Access: |
http://www.iresearchbook.cn/f/ebook/detail?id=3007b9bd90e44d3eb96b3ceacb2b8a02 |
Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (vi, 337 pages) : illustrations. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: |
9780192515940 9780198796176 |
Index Number: | KZ6385 |
CLC: | D995 |
Contents: |
The dispensable lives of soldiers / Sharp wars are brief / Humanity, necessity, and the rights of soldiers / The death of combatants : superfluous injury and unnecessary suffering in contemporary warfare / Proportionate defense / Proportionate killing : using traditional jus in bello conditions to model the relationship between liability and lesser-evil justifications for killing in war / Compensation and proportionality in war / A theory of jus in bello proportionality / Proportionality in warfare as a political norm / The equality of combatants in asymmetric war / Rewriting the AUMF : bringing guidance to executive decisions on combatancy and returning the US to the path of the War Convention / Weighing unjust lives / Joint and combined targeting : structure and process / |