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The Moral Status of Combatants: A New Theory of Just War book cover

1st Edition

The Moral Status of Combatants A New Theory of Just War

By Michael Skerker Copyright 2020
210 Pages
by Routledge

210 Pages
by Routledge

210 Pages
by Routledge
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This book develops a new contractualist foundation for just war theory, which defends the traditional view of the moral equality of combatants and associated egalitarian moral norms. Traditionally it has been viewed that combatants on both sides of a war have the same right to fight, irrespective of the justice of their cause, and both sides must observe the same restrictions on the use of... Read more

Part I: Revisionist Just War Theory

1. Introduction: The Challenge of Revisionist Just War Theory

2. Reductive Individualists’ Theories of Liability

Part II: The Foundations of the Moral Equality of Combatants

3. The Culpability Standard of Liability

4. Responsibility, Justification, and Liability in War

Part III: The Moral Equality of Combatants

5. The Foundations of Military Norms

6. Military Norms

7. The Moral Equality of Combatants

Biography

Michael Skerker is an Associate Professor in the Leadership, Ethics, and Law Department at the US Naval Academy. The views in this book are the author’s alone and do not necessarily reflect those of the US Naval Academy, the Department of the Navy, or any branch of the US Government.

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