Partly Cloudy - Ethics in War, Espionage, Covert Action, and Interrogation

Informationen zum Autor David L. Perry taught ethics for 24 years at several institutions of higher education, including the U.S. Army War College, Davidson and Dickinson colleges, and Seattle and Santa Clara universities. He now lives on Bainbridge Island near Seattle. Klappentext Exploring ethical issues and challenges faced by military and intelligence personnel, this new edition includes critical issues such as torturing detainees, using espionage to penetrate terrorist cells, mounting covert actions to undermine hostile regimes, practicing euthanasia as mercy-killing, or using targeted killings to fight insurgencies. Zusammenfassung Exploring ethical issues and challenges faced by military and intelligence personnel! this new edition includes critical issues such as torturing detainees! using espionage to penetrate terrorist cells! mounting covert actions to undermine hostile regimes! practicing euthanasia as mercy-killing! or using targeted killings to fight insurgencies. Inhaltsverzeichnis PrefaceAcknowledgmentsChapter 1: An Introduction to Ethical ReasoningChapter 2: Comparative Religious Perspectives on WarChapter 3: Just and Unjust War in Shakespeare's Henry VChapter 4: Anticipating and Preventing Atrocities in WarChapter 5: Battlefield Euthanasia: Should Military Mercy-Killings Be Allowed?Chapter 6: Secret Intelligence and American DemocracyChapter 7: The KGB: CIA's Traditional AdversaryChapter 8: EspionageChapter 9: Covert ActionChapter 10: Targeted KillingChapter 11: InterrogationEpilogue: On PeacemakingAbout the AuthorIndex

Product details

• Authors: David L. Perry
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.10.2016
• EAN: 9781442262034
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-6203-4
• No. of pages: 258
• Series: Security and Professional Intelligence Education Series; Security and Professional Intelligence Education Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Intelligence & Espionage, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Espionage & secret services, Espionage and secret services, Political control and freedoms, Political Control & Freedoms