Beschreibung:
Michael Skerker is an Associate Professor in the Leadership, Ethics, and Law Department at the US Naval Academy. The views in this book are the author¿s alone and do not necessarily reflect those of the US Naval Academy, the Department of the Navy, or any branch of the US Government.
This book develops a new contractualist foundation for just war theory, which defends the traditional view of the moral equality of combatants and associated egalitarian moral norms.
Part I: Revisionist Just War Theory 1. Introduction: The Challenge of Revisionist Just War Theory 2. Reductive Individualists¿ Theories of Liability Part II: The Foundations of the Moral Equality of Combatants 3. The Culpability Standard of Liability 4. Responsibility, Justification, and Liability in War Part III: The Moral Equality of Combatants 5. The Foundations of Military Norms 6. Military Norms 7. The Moral Equality of Combatants