Citizen Killings

Liberalism, State Policy and Moral Risk

Dr Deane-Peter Baker (University of New South Wales, Australia)

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Bloomsbury Academic
27 July 2016

Ethics & moral philosophy; Social & political philosophy; Ethical issues: euthanasia & right to die; Political oppression & persecution

Citizen Killings: Liberalism, State Policy and Moral Risk offers a ground breaking systematic approach to formulating ethical public policy on all forms of 'citizen killings’, which include killing in self-defence, abortion, infanticide, assisted suicide, euthanasia and killings carried out by private military contractors and so-called ‘foreign fighters’.

Where most approaches to these issues begin with the assumptions of some or other general approach to ethics, Deane-Peter Baker argues that life-or-death policy decisions of this kind should be driven first and foremost by a recognition of the key limitations that a commitment to political liberalism places on the state, particularly the requirement to respect citizens’ right to life and the principle of liberal neutrality. Where these principles come into tension Baker shows that they can in some cases be defused by way of a reasonableness

test, and in other cases addressed through the application of what he calls the ‘risk of harm principle’. The book also explores the question of what measures citizens and other states might legitimately take in response to states that fail to implement morally appropriate policies regarding citizen killings.

By: Dr Deane-Peter Baker (University of New South Wales Australia)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 243g
ISBN: 9781472575425
ISBN 10: 1472575423
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 27 July 2016
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction: Two Fundamentals and the Nature of Risk Chapter One: Self-Defence and Gun Bans Chapter Two: Contracted Combatants and Foreign Fighters Chapter Three: Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia and Brain Death Chapter Four: Abortion and Infanticide Chapter Five: Citizen Killings, Civil Disobedience and Armed Rebellion Chapter Six: Citizen Killings and Humanitarian Intervention Conclusion Appendix: What about Killing Animals? Bibliography Index

Deane-Peter Baker is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at UNSW Canberra, Australia. In addition to his role at UNSW Canberra Dr Baker holds the position of Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Johannesburg and is also a researcher in the Australian Centre for the Study of Armed Conflict and Society (ACSACS). He is the author Just Warriors, Inc. (2010) and co-editor of Private Military Companies: Ethics, Policies and Civil-Military Relations (2008).