Innocent Civilians

The Morality of Killing in War

C. McKeogh (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

200 Seiten

2002
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-0-333-97237-3 (ISBN)

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Why is it that soldiers may be killed in war but civilians may not be killed? By tracing the evolution of the principle of non-combatant immunity in Western thought from its medieval religious origins to its modern legal status, Colm McKeogh attempts to answer this question. In doing so he highlights the unsuccessful attempts to reconcile warfare with our civilization's most fundamental principles of justice.

COLM MCKEOGH is Lecturer in the Defence and Strategic Studies Programme, University of Waikoto, New Zealand. He is the author of The Political Realism of Reinhold Niebuhr.

Introduction Guilt and Punitive War 1 Guilt and Punitive War 2 Social Roles and Feudal War Innocence of Modern War Non-Combatancy and Formal War Involvement and Total War Conclusion Bibliography Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	15.4.2002
Zusatzinfo	IX, 200 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
ISBN-10	0-333-97237-6 / 0333972376
ISBN-13	978-0-333-97237-3 / 9780333972373
Zustand	Neuware