Waging War : A New Philosophical Introduction Paperback 2

Ian Clark

There is now a major new interest in ethical issues about warfare emerging from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, conflict in Syria and Libya, the war on terror, and the introduction of new weapon systems, such as unmanned drones. In this re-written version of the author's classic text, Waging War, Ian Clark asks probing questions about how we think about war, the changes it is undergoing, and what exactly it is we wage when we wage war. Waging War argues that much of what passes for ethical debate is actually a set of disagreements about what counts as war or not. This philosophical introduction provides a critical review of the various different ways in which the ethical debates are already framed, the questions that arise from these debates, and seeks to bring greater clarity and precision to the important moral arguments about political violence.

9780198724667

English

Oxford University Press

27/Jan/16

176

Ian Clark is currently Professor of International Relations at the University of Queensland and a Visiting Professor at the Rajaratnam School of International Studies, NTU, Singapore. He was until 2013 E. H. Carr Professor of International Politics, Aberystwyth University. He is the author of many books on IR theory and international history, most recently The Vulnerable in International Society (OUP, 2013). He is a Fellow of the British Academy, a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales, and an Honorary Fellow of Selwyn College, Cambridge. He now lives in Melbourne.

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The book would make an excellent critical introduction for students of the ethics of war and political violence. * Political Studies Review * unashamedly bold and far-reaching, proudly concerned with the fundamentals of the discipline, making sense where previously there was very little of it. Ian Clark impresses with thorough knowledge of both the military and the philosophical-ethical dimensions of waging war and the ability to bring them together in a fashion that is both conceptual and immediately practical * LSE Review of Books *