Moral victories : the ethics of winning wars /
What does it mean to win a moral victory? Ideals of just and decisive triumphs often color the call to war, yet victory is an increasingly dubious proposition in modern conflict, where negotiated settlements and festering violence have replaced formal surrenders. In the Just War and strategic studie...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2017]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | What does it mean to win a moral victory? Ideals of just and decisive triumphs often color the call to war, yet victory is an increasingly dubious proposition in modern conflict, where negotiated settlements and festering violence have replaced formal surrenders. In the Just War and strategic studies traditions, assumptions about victory also underpin decisions to go to war but become more problematic in discussions about its conduct and conclusion. So although winning is typically considered the very object of war, we lack a clear understanding of victory itself. Likewise, we lack reliable resources for discerning a just from an unjust victory, for balancing the duty to fight ethically with the obligation to win and for assessing the significance of changing ways of war for moral judgment. Though not amenable to easy answers, these important questions are both perennial and especially urgent. This book brings together a group of leading scholars from various disciplines to tackle them. |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 245 pages : illustration ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0198801823 9780198801825 |