Opposing Perspectives on the Drone Debate

ISBN-13: 9781137432612 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 199 str.

Bradley Jay Strawser;Lisa Hajjar;Steven Z. Levine

Opis

Does the lethal use of drones pose any new or difficult moral problems? Or is the controversy over these weapons merely a distraction from deeper questions regarding the justice of war and the United States' bellicose foreign policy? Opposing Perspectives

Spis treści

PART I: OPENING ARGUMENT 1. More Heat Than Light: The Vexing Complexities of the Drone Debate; Bradley Jay Strawser PART II: FIRST ROUND OF RESPONSES 2. Is Targeted Killing War?; Lisa Hajjar 3. Drones Threaten Democratic Decision-Making; Steven Levine 4. Even War Has Limits; Feisal H. Naqvi 5. On Adopting a Posture of Moral Neutrality; John Fabian Witt PART III: STRAWSER'S RESPONSE 6. Reply to Critics: No Easy Answers; Bradley Jay Strawser PART IV: SECOND ROUND OF RESPONSES 7. A Sociological Intervention on Drones and Targeted Killing; Lisa Hajjar 8. Drones: Between Principle and Policy; Steven Levine 9. The Other Side of the Line; Feisal Naqvi 10. A Duty to Capture?; John Fabian Witt PART V: CONCLUDING RESPONSE 11. Arguing in Good Faith about Drones; Bradley Jay Strawser

O autorze

Bradley J. Strawser is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Naval Postgraduate School , USA, and Research Associate at Oxford University's Institute for Ethics, Law, and Armed Conflict, UK.