War and Border Crossings

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War and Border Crossings brings together renowned scholars to address some of the most pressing problems in public policy, international affairs, and the intercultural issues of our day. Contributors from widely varying disciplines discuss cross-cultural ethical issues and international topics ranging from American international policy and the invasion and occupation of Iraq to domestic topics such as immigration, the war on drugs, cross-cultural bioethics and ethical issues involving American Indian tribes. The culture clashes discussed in these essays raise serious questions about what principles ought to inform the negotiating of conflicts in order to achieve, or at least approach, outcomes that are fundamentally just, fair, responsible, and ethical.

Chapter 2 Preface
Part 3 I. Pax Americana: The Justification of Preemptive War and the Response to International Terrorism
Chapter 4 September 11: Some Philosophical Reflections
Chapter 5 The Bush National Security Strategy of Preemptive War
Chapter 6 Iraq, the Just War Ethic, and Preemptive War
Chapter 7 Defense or Offense? The Two Streams of Just War Tradition
Chapter 8 Cooperative Security: The Alternative to Pax Americana
Chapter 9 Pax Americana and the Bush Doctrine in the Middle East: An Arab Post-Iraq War Perspective
Chapter 10 Jus Post Bellum
Part 11 II. Cross-Cultural and Cross Generational Interactions: Building Bridges While Guarding Boundaries
Chapter 13 General Issues
Chapter 14 Cross-Cultural Judgments: The Next Steps
Chapter 15 Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes
Chapter 16 Categories, Conflicts, Conundrums: Reflections on the Religion/Secular Divide
Chapter 17 Duties Beyond Borders: The Expanding Ethical Universe
Chapter 18 ON THE BORDERS AND CROSSING BORDERS:
Chapter 19 Managing Mestizaje: The Ethics of a Cosmopolitan Era
Chapter 20 Politics, Rights, and the Refugee Problem
Chapter 21 Journalism Ethics and Ethnics
Chapter 22 Ethical Dimensions of the War on Drugs
Chapter 23 Bioethics in a Culturally Diverse World
Chapter 24 NATIVE PEOPLES:
Chapter 25 Ethics and Regulation in American Indian Environments: Embracing Autonomy and the Environmental Citizen
Chapter 26 Reclaiming Our Humanity: Decolonization and the Recovery of Indigenous Knowledge
Chapter 27 Tribal Environmental Policy and the Majority Society's Development Desires
Chapter 28In the Light of Reverence: When Every Place is Sacred