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001			on1023569720
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005			20240726105106.0
008			171031s2018 enk fob 001 0 eng d
040			_aUAB _beng _erda _epn _cUAB _dOCLCO _dOCLCF _dOH1 _dFIE _dUKOUP _dYDX _dCEF _dKSU _dU3W _dOTZ _dNT _dEBLCP
020			_a9780191845789 _q((electronic)l(electronic)ctronic)
020			_a9780192535405
050	0	4	_aU22 _b.W373 2018
049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aZehfuss, Maja, _e1
245	1	0	_aWar and the politics of ethics /Maja Zehfuss.
250			_aFirst edition.
260			_aOxford : _bOxford University Press, _c(c)2018.
300			_a1 online resource.
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337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
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500			_aThis edition previously issued in print: 2018.
504			_a2
520	8		_aContemporary Western war is represented as enacting the West's ability and responsibility to help make the world a better place for others, in particular to protect them from oppression and serious human rights abuses. That is, war has become permissible again, indeed even required, as ethical war. At the same time, however, Western war kills and destroys. This creates a paradox: Western war risks killing those it proposes to protect. This book examines how we have responded to this dilemma and challenges the vision of ethical war itself. That is, it explores how the commitment to ethics shapes the practice of war and indeed how practices come, in turn, to shape what is considered ethical in war. The book closely examines particular practices of warfare, such as targeting, the use of cultural knowledge, and ethics training for soldiers. What emerges is that instead of constraining violence, the commitment to ethics enables and enhances it. The book argues that the production of ethical war relies on an impossible but obscured separation between ethics and politics, that is, a problematic politics of ethics, and reflects on the need to make decisions at the limit of ethics.
505	0	0	_aCover; War and the Politics of Ethics; Copyright; Preface and Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Abbreviations; 1: Introduction; 1.1 The Rise of Ethical War; 1.2 Plan of the Book; 2: The Paradox of Ethical War and the Politics of Ethics; 2.1 The Paradox of Ethical War; 2.2 Negotiating the Paradox: Just War Thinking; 2.3 The Legitimation of War; 2.4 The Tragedy of Death and the Aporia of Responsibility; 2.5 War and the Politics of Ethics; 2.6 Conclusion; 3: Targeting: Precision Bombing and the Production of Ethics; 3.1 In Praise of Precision; 3.2 Precision in Practice
505	0	0	_a3.3 Precision and Protection3.4 Precision and the Production of Ethics; 3.5 Drone Warfare and the Promise of Precision; 3.6 Conclusion; 4: Culture: Knowledge of the People as Technology of Ethics; 4.1 The Rise of Culture: Towards a Battle for the People; 4.2 Culture in Practice: The Counterinsurgency Manual; 4.3 Social Scientists into War: The Human Terrain System; 4.4 The People as the Battlefield; 4.5 Social Science: Objective Knowledge as Technology of Ethics; 4.6 Conclusion; 5: Ethics Education: Ethics as Ethos and the Impossibly Good Soldier; 5.1 Forces for Good; 5.2 Making Good Soldiers
505	0	0	_a5.3 Good Soldiers, Good War?5.4 Virtue Ethics and the Impossibly Good Soldier; 5.5 Conclusion; 6: The Politics of War at the Limits of Ethics; 6.1 The Seduction of Ethics; 6.2 Responding within Ethics; 6.3 Responding at the Limits of Ethics; 6.4 Conclusion; References; Index
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650		0	_aWar _xMoral and ethical aspects.
650		0	_aPolitical ethics.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1843234&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell