War, Torture and Terrorism: Ethics and War in the 21st CenturyISBN: 978-1-4051-7398-8
Paperback
152 pages
October 2007, Wiley-Blackwell
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List of Contributors vii
1 Introduction 1
The Ethics of War: State of the Art
David Rodin
2 Luck, Evidence and War 7
Rob Lawlor
3 Defending the Common Life: National-Defense After Rodin 19
Deane-Peter Baker
4 Humanitarian Intervention: Closing the Gap Between Theory and Practice 35
Gillian Brock
5 Iraq: A Morally Justified Resort to War 51
David Mellow
6 Moral Tragedies, Supreme Emergencies and National-Defense 71
Daniel Statman
7 Assassination and Targeted Killing: Law Enforcement, Execution of Self-Defense? 83
Michael L. Gross
8 Torture – The Case for Dirty Harry and Against Alan Dershowitz 97
Uwe Steinhoff
9 Torture, Terrorism and the State: a Refutation of the Ticking-Bomb Argument 115
Vittorio Bufacchi and Jean Maria Arrigo
Index 133