Journal article
Should the Changing Character of War Affect Our Theories of War?
Ethical theory and moral practice, Vol.19(3), pp.603-618
06/01/2016
DOI: 10.1007/s10677-015-9653-x
Abstract
War has changed so much that it barely resembles the paradigmatic cases of armed conflict that just war theories and international humanitarian law seemed to have had in mind even a few decades ago. The changing character of war includes not only the use of new technology such as drones, but probably more problematically the changing temporal and spatial scope of war and the changing character of actors in war. These changes give rise to worries about what counts as war and thus what norms to use in evaluating a particular conflict. In this paper, I develop an argument that the changing character of war gives us reasons to take reductionist revisions of just war theory seriously. By reductionist theories of war I mean those revisions within the just war tradition that suggest that we can use ordinary peacetime interpersonal analyses of moral responsibility and liability to harm to decide what justice requires in times of war.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Should the Changing Character of War Affect Our Theories of War?
- Creators
- Jovana Davidovic - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Ethical theory and moral practice, Vol.19(3), pp.603-618
- Publisher
- Springer Nature
- DOI
- 10.1007/s10677-015-9653-x
- ISSN
- 1386-2820
- eISSN
- 1572-8447
- Number of pages
- 16
- Grant note
- DOI: 10.13039/501100001809, name: National Natural Science Foundation of China, award: No.41071053; name: Sub-Task of National Science and Technology Support Program for Rural Development in The 12th Five-Year Plan of China, award: No.2013BAD20B04-S3; name: Specialized Research Fund for the Public Welfare Industry of the Ministry of Water Resources, award: No.201301096; name: Specialized Research Fund for Innovative Talents of Harbin (Excellent Academic Leader), award: No.2013RFXXJ001; name: Science and Technology Research Program of Education Department of Heilongjiang Province, award: No.12531012; name: Science and Technology Program of Water Conservancy of Heilongjiang Province, award: No.201319; name: Northeast Agricultural University Innovation Foundation For Postgraduate, award: No.yjscx14069
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 06/01/2016
- Academic Unit
- Law Faculty; Philosophy
- Record Identifier
- 9984397200302771
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