1st Edition

Privatizing War A Moral Theory

By William Feldman Copyright 2016
200 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge

This book offers a comprehensive moral theory of privatization in war. It examines the kind of wars that private actors might wage separate from the state and the kind of wars that private actors might wage as functionaries of the state. The first type of war serves to probe the ad bellum question of whether private actors can justifiably authorize war, while the second type of war serves to... Read more



1. Introduction









PART I: AUTHORIZING WAR





2. Legitimate Authority and the Monopolization of War



3. All Affected Fundamental Interests





4. The Risk-Imposition of War





PART II: SUPPLYING WAR



5. Governance





6. Punishment



7. Control



8. Challenges





9. Conclusion

Biography





William Brand Feldman has a DPhil. in Politics from the University of Oxford and is a resident physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School.