Soft War (eBook, ePUB)

The Ethics of Unarmed Conflict
Redaktion: Gross, Michael L.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Just war theory focuses primarily on bodily harm, such as killing, maiming, and torture, while other harms are often largely overlooked. At the same time, contemporary international conflicts increasingly involve the use of unarmed tactics, employing 'softer' alternatives or supplements to kinetic power that have not been sufficiently addressed by the ethics of war or international law. Soft war tactics include cyber-warfare and economic sanctions, media warfare, and propaganda, as well as non-violent resistance as it plays out in civil disobedience, boycotts, and 'lawfare.' While the just war tradition has much to say about 'hard' war - bullets, bombs, and bayonets - it is virtually silent on the subject of 'soft' war. Soft War: The Ethics of Unarmed Conflict illuminates this neglected aspect of international conflict.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108238892
• Artikelnr.: 49047347

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Michael L. Gross and Tamar Meisels; Part I. Definitions and
Meta Views: 1. Defining war Jessica Wolfendale; 2. Coercion, manipulation,
and harm: civilian immunity and soft war Valerie Morkevi¿ius; Part II.
Economic Warfare: 3. Reconsidering economic sanctions Joy Gordon; 4.
Conditional sale Cécile Fabre; Part III. Cyber Warfare, Media Warfare, and
Lawfare: 5. State-sponsored hacktivism and the rise of 'soft' war George R.
Lucas, Jr; 6. Media warfare, propaganda, and the law of war Laurie R.
Blank; 7. The ethics of soft war on today's mediatized battlespaces
Sebastian Kaempf; 8. Abuse of law on the 21st-century battlefield: a
typology of lawfare Janina Dill; Part IV. Nonviolence: 9. Unarmed
bodyguards to the rescue? The ethics of non-violent intervention James
Pattison; 10. How subversive are human rights? Civil subversion and the
ethics of unarmed resistance Christopher J. Finlay; 11. Bearers of hope on
the paradox of non-violent action Cheney Ryan; Part V. Hostage Taking and
Prisoners: 12. A cooperative globalist approach to the hostage dilemma
Ariel Colonomos; 13. Kidnapping and extortion as tactics of soft war Tamar
Meisels; 14. Conclusions: proportionate self defense in unarmed conflict
Michael L. Gross.