00000nam 2200000 4500 09952/MKRI-P/XI-2008 09951/MKRI-P/XI-2008 INLIS000000000004561 09951/MKRI-P/XI-2008 09952/MKRI-P/XI-2008 20221013091822 0010-0520004561 221013################|##########|#eng## 9780415452823 eng 172.42 172.42 COK e Coker, Christopher Ethics and War in the 21st Century / Christopher Coker New York : Springer, 2008 xiii, 201 p.; 23 cm. ; 23 cm. Indeks : p.193-201 p.189-192 This book explores the ethical implications of war in the contemporary world. The author, a leading theorist of warfare, explains why it is of crucial importance that Western countries should continue to apply traditional ethical rules and practices in war, even when engaging with international terrorist groups. The book uses the work of the late American philosopher Richard Rorty to explain the need to make ethical rules central to the conduct of military operations. Arguing that the question of ethics was re-opened by the war on terror, the book then examines America's post-9/11 redefinition of its own prevailing discourse of war. It ends with a discussion of other key challenges to the ethics of war, such as the rise of private security companies and the use of robots in war. In exploring these issues, this book seeks to place ethics at the centre of debates about the conduct of future warfare. War (philosophy) War - Moral and ethical aspects 09952/MKRI-P/XI-2008 09951/MKRI-P/XI-2008