Ethics and the Laws of War Suggested Readings Political Economy and Development Studies

Political Economy and Development Studies

as an aspect of consciousness

Arguing that the question of ethics was re-opened by the ‘War on Terror’

But using the techniques of ethnography

Across six chapters

Ethics and the Laws of War Suggested Readings Political Economy and Development StudiesThis book is an examination of the permissions, prohibitions and obligations found in just war theory, and the moral grounds for laws concerning war. Pronouncing an action or course of actions to be prohibited, permitted or obligatory by just war theory does not thereby establish the moral grounds of that prohibition, permission or obligation; nor does such a pronouncement have sufficient persuasive force to govern actions in the public arena. So what