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War and self-defense

Author: David Rodin
Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: David Rodin
ISBN: 0199257744 9780199257744 0199275416 9780199275410
OCLC Number: 50334005
Description: xvi, 213 p. : ill., ; 23 cm.
Contents: Introduction: The argument --
The status of moral claims --
War and consequentialism --
Part I: Self-defense --
Rights --
Hohfeld's building blocks --
Logical structure of rights --
Having a right and being in the right --
Justification and excuse --
Model of defensive rights --
A three-legged stool --
Defense as a derivative right --
Limits on the right: necessity, imminence, proportionality --
Bounds of proportionality --
Consequences and forced choice --
The lesser evil --
Forced choice --
The resilience of responsibility --
Grounding self-defense in rights --
Forfeiture and rights of limited scope --
The role of fault --
Innocent threats and innocent aggressors --
Objective wrongdoing --
Moral subjects --
Variety of excuses --
Part II: National-defense --
International law --
National-defense in international law --
Limits of the right --
Need for a normative foundation --
War and defense of persons --
Two levels of war --
Reductive strategy --
Imminent and conditional threats --
War and the protection of persons --
War and the common life --
Political association --
The character of common lives --
Communal integrity and self-determination --
Myth of descrete communities --
War, responsibility, and law enforcement --
Paradox in the just war theory --
Responsibility of soldiers --
War and law enforcement --
Argument for a universal state --
Conclusion: Morality and realism.
Responsibility: David Rodin.
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