Fighting Terror - Ethical Dilemmas

Fighting Terror analyses the ethical dilemmas that confront everyone in the war on terror. Arguing that this is as much a war of ideas as it is a military struggle, Alex Bellamy argues that fighting morally is essential in distancing the terrorized from the terrorists.The book starts by setting out the case for thinking ethically about the war on terror and demonstrates the immorality of terrorism. Covering everything from torture to bombing, assassination to post-war reconstruction, Bellamy uses a series of fascinating case studies to examine how morally terror is being fought across the world. Though, he claims, there is a good case for combating terrorism, the way this is being done is ethically deeply troubling. Fighting Terror makes a powerful and controversial argument for bringing ethics and morality back in to the way we think about terrorism.>

Table des matières

Preface
Introduction
1. Ethics and War: An Oxymoron?
2. What's Wrong with Terrorism?
3. A Just War on Terror?
4. Is Pre-emption Legitimate?
5. May we Torture Ticking Bomb Terrorists?
6. What Comes Next?
Notes
Index

A propos de l'auteur

Alex Bellamy

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Alex Bellamy, Alex J. Bellamy
• Edition: Zed Books
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Broché
• Sortie: 28.08.2008
• EAN: 9781842779682
• ISBN: 978-1-84277-968-2
• Pages: 184
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée > Philosophie, religion > Philosophie: général, ouvrages de référence; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Philosophie > Général, dictionnaires; Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sciences politiques > Sciences politiques et formation politique