Terrorism and the Ethics of War

ISBN: 9780521137164 出版年：2010 页码：329 Nathanson Cambridge University Press

Introduction Part I. Terrorism: What's in a Name?: 1. The problem of defining terrorism 2. Defining terrorism 3. What makes terrorism wrong? 4. Innocence and discrimination 5. 'Who dun it' definitions of terrorism Conclusion: taking stock Part II. Why Moral Condemnations of Terrorism Lack Credibility: Introduction: toward morally credible condemnations of terrorism 6. Why standard theories fail to condemn terrorism 7. Just war theory and the problem of collateral damage Conclusion: categorical vs. conditional criticisms of terrorism Part III. Defending Noncombatant Immunity: Introduction: the ethics of war-fighting: a spectrum of possible views 8. The realist challenge to the ethics of war 9. An ethic of war for reasonable realists 10. Walzer on noncombatant immunity as a human right 11. The supreme emergency exception 12. Rights theories, utilitarianism, and the killing of civilians 13. Immunity rights vs. the right of self-defense 14. A rule utilitarian defense of noncombatant immunity 15. Why utilitarian criticisms of noncombatant immunity are mistaken 16. Is noncombatant immunity a 'mere' convention? Part IV. How Much Immunity Should Noncombatants Have?: Introduction: the problem of collateral damage 17. The problem of collateral damage killings 18. The ethics of collateral damage killings Conclusion: terrorism and the ethics of war Bibliography Index.