Book Description
"Philosophy and science"--Jacket. Bibliography: p. [242]-257. Includes index.
Author : Douglas P. Lackey
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 18,19 MB
Release : 1984
Category : History
ISBN : 9780847671168
"Philosophy and science"--Jacket. Bibliography: p. [242]-257. Includes index.
Author : Theodore Martin Hesburgh
Publisher : Carnegie Council on Ethics &
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 45,53 MB
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Arms race
ISBN : 9780876412305
Author : Sohail H. Hashmi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 35,88 MB
Release : 2004-07-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521545266
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Author : Thomas E. Doyle, II
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 30,53 MB
Release : 2020-01-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1442276614
This book relates a complex ethical (re)assessment of the continued reliance by some states on nuclear weapons as instruments of state power. This (re)assessment is more urgent considering the relatively recent intensification of great power conflict dynamics and the nuclear-weapon states’ recommitments to modernizing, augmenting, or tailoring their nuclear forces to address vital state and alliance interests. And, especially since the beginning of the administration of U.S. President Donald J. Trump, these recommitments have accelerated the degree to which the political and moral dilemmas of (the threat of) nuclear use define and intensify existential risks for specific states and the international community at large. To execute this (re)assessment, this book details how strategic, political, legal, and moral reasoning are deeply intertwined on the questions of vital state and global values. Its ontological assumptions are taken from a broadly construed IR Constructivist stance, and its epistemological approach applies non-ideal moral principles informed by Kantian thought to selected problems of nuclear-armed security competition as they evolved since President Barack Obama’s 2009 Prague Declaration. This non-ideal moral approach employed is committed to the view that the dual imperatives of humanity’s survival and the common security of states requires an international order which privileges considerations of justice over power-political considerations. This non-ideal moral approach is a necessary element of theorizing a set of practices to effectively address the challenges and dilemmas of reordering international politics in terms of justice.
Author : Gro Nystuen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 804 pages
File Size : 15,66 MB
Release : 2014-08-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 1139992740
Nuclear Weapons under International Law is a comprehensive treatment of nuclear weapons under key international law regimes. It critically reviews international law governing nuclear weapons with regard to the inter-state use of force, international humanitarian law, human rights law, disarmament law, and environmental law, and discusses where relevant the International Court of Justice's 1996 Advisory Opinion. Unique in its approach, it draws upon contributions from expert legal scholars and international law practitioners who have worked with conventional and non-conventional arms control and disarmament issues. As a result, this book embraces academic consideration of legal questions within the context of broader political debates about the status of nuclear weapons under international law.
Author : Michael Quinlan
Publisher : Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 39,95 MB
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN :
En studie vedr. kernevåbens betydning og indflydelse på sikkerhedspolitik og magtbalance
Author : Donald L. Davidson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 41,22 MB
Release : 2019-03-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 042972571X
This book describes the positions advocated by ethicists and churches in the public debate on nuclear weapons. After tracing the development of just-war theory, the dominant moral position on war in Western thought, Dr. Davidson synthesizes the views of contemporary ethicists on the moral principles associated with the just-war tradition. He then documents the postures of Reinhold Niebuhr, Paul Ramsey, Michael Walzer, and James Turner Johnson with regard to the first use and retaliatory use of nuclear weapons, deterrence policy, the nuclear freeze proposal, the arms race, and disarmament. The positions endorsed by the Roman Catholic Church and the major Protestant and Jewish denominations in the United States on the issues of nuclear warfare are described in detail, with extensive treatment given to the development of the Catholic Bishops' 1983 pastoral letter on war and peace and the statements of churches affiliated with the National Council of Churches. The views of over 30 denominations, representing more than 110 million members, are considered. The final chapter of the book contrasts the stance of the churches with that of the Reagan Administration. Proposing guidelines for a moral defense policy in the nuclear age, Dr. Davidson's thesis is that national security requires a recognition of the need to protect and preserve values worth defending while simultaneously taking steps to prevent nuclear war.
Author : Thomas C. Schelling
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 27,97 MB
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0300253486
“This is a brilliant and hardheaded book. It will frighten those who prefer not to dwell on the unthinkable and infuriate those who have taken refuge in stereotypes and moral attitudinizing.”—Gordon A. Craig, New York Times Book Review Originally published more than fifty years ago, this landmark book explores the ways in which military capabilities—real or imagined—are used, skillfully or clumsily, as bargaining power. Anne-Marie Slaughter’s new introduction to the work shows how Schelling’s framework—conceived of in a time of superpowers and mutually assured destruction—still applies to our multipolar world, where wars are fought as much online as on the ground.
Author : Joseph S. Nye
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 14,67 MB
Release : 2020
Category : POLITICAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 0190935960
What is the role of ethics in American foreign policy? The Trump Administration has elevated this from a theoretical question to front-page news. Should ethics even play a role, or should we only focus on defending our material interests? In Do Morals Matter? Joseph S. Nye provides a concise yet penetrating analysis of how modern American presidents have-and have not-incorporated ethics into their foreign policy. Nye examines each presidency during theAmerican era post-1945 and scores them on the success they achieved in implementing an ethical foreign policy. Alongside this, he evaluates their leadership qualities, explaining which approaches work and which ones do not.
Author : John Finnis
Publisher :
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 46,12 MB
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN :
Nuclear deterrence requires objective ethical analysis. In providing it, the authors face realities - the Soviet threat, possible nuclear holocaust, strategic imperatives - but they also unmask moral evasions - deterrence cannot be bluff, pure counterforce, the lesser (or greater) evil, or a step towards disarmament. They conclude that the deterrent is unjustifiable and examine the new question of conscience that this raises for everyone.