Outsourcing war : the just war tradition in the age of military privatization /
Eckert, Amy,
Outsourcing war : the just war tradition in the age of military privatization / Amy E. Eckert. - Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, (c)2016. - 1 online resource (xii, 183 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
The just war tradition and the new market for private force -- The state system and the evolution of the just war tradition -- Jus ad bellum principles and privatized war -- Privatization and the normative challenge to jus in bello rules -- The ethics of war, the market for private force, and the public/private divide.
Recent decades have seen an increasing reliance on private military contractors (PMCs) to provide logistical services, training, maintenance, and combat troops. This book examines the ethical implications involved in the widespread use of PMCs, and in particular questions whether they can fit within customary ways of understanding the ethical prosecution of warfare.
9781501703560 9781501703577
2021702297
Private military companies--Moral and ethical aspects.
Private security services--Moral and ethical aspects.
Mercenary troops--Moral and ethical aspects.
Just war doctrine.
Military ethics.
War--Moral and ethical aspects.
Electronic Books.
UB149 / .O987 2016
Outsourcing war : the just war tradition in the age of military privatization / Amy E. Eckert. - Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, (c)2016. - 1 online resource (xii, 183 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
The just war tradition and the new market for private force -- The state system and the evolution of the just war tradition -- Jus ad bellum principles and privatized war -- Privatization and the normative challenge to jus in bello rules -- The ethics of war, the market for private force, and the public/private divide.
Recent decades have seen an increasing reliance on private military contractors (PMCs) to provide logistical services, training, maintenance, and combat troops. This book examines the ethical implications involved in the widespread use of PMCs, and in particular questions whether they can fit within customary ways of understanding the ethical prosecution of warfare.
9781501703560 9781501703577
2021702297
Private military companies--Moral and ethical aspects.
Private security services--Moral and ethical aspects.
Mercenary troops--Moral and ethical aspects.
Just war doctrine.
Military ethics.
War--Moral and ethical aspects.
Electronic Books.
UB149 / .O987 2016