Contemporary Technologies and the Morality of Warfare

Supported by genuine historical cases, this book argues that certain new technologies in warfare can not only be justified within the current framework of the just war theory, but that their use is mandatory from a moral perspective.

Autorentext

Jean-François Caron is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan, where he teaches Political Theory. He is also a teaching and a research fellow at the Institute of Political Science and Administration at the University of Opole, Poland.

Inhalt

Introduction

Chapter 1: The Nature of Current Military Technological Innovations

Chapter 2: Technologies and the Military's Duty of Care

Chapter 3: The Use of Military Technologies as a Way to Increase Morality

Chapter 4: Military Technologies, Respect for the Rules of Warfare, and Legal Accountability

Chapter 5: The Morality of Killing

Chapter 6: Technologies and the Enhanced Risk of Warfare

Conclusion