Soft War - The Ethics of Unarmed Conflict

Klappentext This collection focuses on non-kinetic warfare, including cyber, media, and economic warfare, as well as non-violent resistance, 'lawfare', and hostage-taking. Zusammenfassung This is an academic book! but it is also accessible to a wider audience interested in just war theory! the laws of war! terrorism! and current affairs. It is for scholars and students in any of the following areas: political science! political and moral philosophy! law! sociology! and international relations. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

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• Authors: Michael L Gross, Michael L. Gross, Michael L. (University of Haifa Gross
• Assisted by: Michael L. Gross (Editor), Michael L. (University of Haifa Gross (Editor), Gross Michael L. (Editor), Tamar Meisels (Editor), Tamar (Tel-Aviv University) Meisels (Editor), Meisels Tamar (Editor), Walzer Michael (Foreword)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2017
• EAN: 9781107584785
• ISBN: 978-1-107-58478-5
• No. of pages: 282
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, International Relations