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War, Torture and Terrorism: Ethics and War in the 21st Century

David Rodin (Editor)
ISBN: 978-1-4051-7398-8
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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

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