Just and Unjust Warriors: The Moral and Legal Status of Soldiers

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David Rodin (Research Fellow in Philosophy, Oxford Leverhulme Programme on the Changing Character of War) Henry Shue (Senior Research Fellow Emeritus, Merton College, Oxford)

Just and Unjust Warriors

The Moral and Legal Status of Soldiers

David Rodin (Research Fellow in Philosophy, Oxford Leverhulme Programme on the Changing Character of War), Henry Shue (Senior Research Fellow Emeritus, Merton College, Oxford)

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Oxford University Press
02 September 2010

Ethics & moral philosophy; Social & political philosophy; International relations

Can a soldier be held responsible for fighting in a war that is illegal or unjust? This is the question at the heart of a new debate that has the potential to profoundly change our understanding of the moral and legal status of warriors, wars, and indeed of moral agency itself. The debate pits a widely shared and legally entrenched principle of war-that combatants have equal rights and equal responsibilities irrespective of whether they are fi ghting in a war that is just or unjust-against a set of striking new arguments. These arguments challenge the idea that there is a separation between the rules governing the justice of going to war (the jus ad bellum) and the rules governing what combatants can do in war (the jus in bello). If ad bellum

and in bello

rules are connected in the way these new arguments suggest, then many aspects of just war theory and laws of war would have to be rethought and perhaps reformed. This book contains eleven original and closely argued essays by leading figures in the ethics and laws of war and provides an authoritative treatment of this important new debate. The essays both challenge and defend many deeply held convictions: about the liability of soldiers for crimes of aggression, about the nature and justifi ability of terrorism, about the relationship between law and morality, the relationship between soldiers and states, and the relationship between the ethics of war and the ethics of ordinary life.

This book is a project of the Oxford Leverhulme Programme on the Changing Character of War.

Edited by: David Rodin (Research Fellow in Philosophy Oxford Leverhulme Programme on the Changing Character of War), Henry Shue (Senior Research Fellow Emeritus, Merton College, Oxford)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 157mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 418g
ISBN: 9780199593231
ISBN 10: 019959323X
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 02 September 2010
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

"1: David Rodin and Henry Shue: Introduction 2: Jeff McMahan: The Morality of War and the Law of War 3: David Rodin: The Moral Inequality of Soldiers: Why Jus in Bello Asymmetry is Half Right 4: Christopher Kutz: Fearful Symmetry 5: Henry Shue: Do We Need a ""Morality of War""? 6: Judith Lichtenberg: How to Judge Soldiers Whose Cause in Unjust 7: Cheyney Ryan: Moral equality, victimhood and the sovereignty symmetry problem 8: Tony Coady: The Status of Combatants 9: Anthony Coates: Is the Independent Application of Jus in Bello the way to Limit War? 10: Gregory Reichberg: Just War and Regular War: Competing Paradigms 11: Dan Zupan: A Presumption of the Moral Equality of Combatants: a Citizen Soldier' Perspective 12: Adam Roberts: The Principle of Equal Application of the Laws of War"

"David Rodin is Research Fellow in Philosophy at the Changing Character of War Program, University of Oxford, and Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, the Australian National University. His research covers a wide range of topics in moral philosophy including the ethics of war and conflict, business ethics, and international justice. His is the author of War and Self-Defense (OUP 2002), which was awarded the American Philosophical Association Sharp Prize, and is co-editor of The Ethics of War: Shared Problems in Different Traditions (Ashgate, 2006), and of Preemption (OUP 2007). Henry Shue is Senior Research Fellow Emeritus at Merton College, Oxford; from 2002-2007 he was Professor of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford. Best known for Basic Rights (Princeton, 1980; 2nd Ed., 1996), he has written a number of highly influential articles including ""Torture"" (1978), ""Exporting Hazards"" (1981), ""Mediating Duties"" (1988), ""Subsistence Emissions and Luxury Emissions"" (1993), ""War"" (2003), and ""Limiting Sovereignty"" (2004). He continues to write on the ethical aspects of climate change and war, with a book called Limiting War currently in progress."

Reviews for Just and Unjust Warriors: The Moral and Legal Status of Soldiers

This volume is excellent. It is comprehensive and informative. Just and Unjust Warriors mostly delivers on its promise of tightly argued chapters that respond to each other. It gives us more to think about and is accessible to a wide audience. Even though it will be more interesting to those readers with some background in just war theory, it is also recommended for those who want simply to think seriously about the moral rules applicable to war. Steve Viner, Intrnational Affairs The quality of the contributions in Just and Unjust Warriors is universally high, and, unlike most edited volumes, in which the individual chapters stand more or less in isolation, in this instance there is continuous cross-referencing between the authors. This produces a volume that is unusually coherent and focussed for an edited work, a fact for which Rodin and Shue deserve congratulation. Journal of Applied Philosophy