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Index
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Series editor preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Global violence: conceptual issues
Normative conversations about global violence: a multidisciplinary effort
Summary of contents
Using this book
Notes
1. Moral and political theory
Moral theory: consequences, duties, and virtues
Political theory: universality and community
Conclusion
Notes
2. International relations and just war theory
International relations theory: the pursuit of power and peace
Elements from them all: the just war tradition
Conclusion
Notes
3. Inter-state war
Ethics, actors, and authority: states and political communities
The ethics of resorting to war
Further moral limitations in resorting to war
The ethical conduct of war
Case study: the 2003 invasion of Iraq
Conclusion
Notes
4. Civil war
Political communities and self-determination
Just cause for fighting a civil war
External intervention in civil wars
Combatancy and insurgency
Case study: the Libyan Civil War and NATO intervention
Conclusion
Notes
5. Nuclear weapons
The use of nuclear weapons
Deterrence and the morality of possessing nuclear weapons
The spread of nuclear weapons
Responding to new nuclear threats
Conclusion
Notes
6. Terrorism and torture
Definitions of terrorism and torture
Justifying terrorism and torture
9/11 and torture in the “global war on terror”
Conclusion
Notes
7. Genocide
Conceptual and ethical issues: genocide and mass murder
The ethics and politics of genocide response
Case study: the Darfur crisis and the international response
Conclusion
Notes
Conclusion
Moral for whom?
Notes
Index
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