Just war theory focuses primarily on bodily harm, such as killing, maiming, and torture, while other harms are often largely overlooked. At the same time, contemporary international conflicts increasingly involve the use of unarmed tactics, employing 'softer' alternatives or supplements to kinetic power that have not been sufficiently addressed by the ethics of war or international law. Soft war tactics include cyber-warfare and economic sanctions, media warfare, and propaganda, as well as non-violent resistance as it plays out in civil disobedience, boycotts, and 'lawfare.' While the just war tradition has much to say about 'hard' war - bullets, bombs, and bayonets - it is virtually silent on the subject of 'soft' war. Soft War: The Ethics of Unarmed Conflict illuminates this neglected aspect of international conflict.
Author(s): Michael L. Gross, Tamar Meisels, Michael Walzer
Edition: 1
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2017
Language: English
Commentary: TruePDF | Index Missing
Pages: 285
Tags: Cyberspace Operations (Military Science); Information Warfare; War: Moral And Ethical Aspects; International Relations: Moral And Ethical Aspects; Economic Sanctions
Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Contents
Contributors
Foreword
Preface
Introduction
Soft War: The Ethics of Unarmed Conflict
Definitions and Meta Views
1 | Defining War
2 | Coercion, Manipulation, and Harm: Civilian Immunity and Soft War
Economic Warfare
3 | Reconsidering Economic Sanctions
4 | Conditional Sale
Cyber Warfare, Media Warfare, and Lawfare
5 | State-Sponsored Hacktivism and the Rise of “Soft” War
6 | Media Warfare, Propaganda, and the Law of War
7 | The Ethics of Soft War on Today’s Mediatized Battlespaces
8 | Abuse of Law on the Twenty-First-Century Battlefield: A Typology of Lawfare
Nonviolence
9 | Unarmed Bodyguards to the Rescue? The Ethics of Nonviolent Intervention
10 | How Subversive Are Human Rights? Civil Subversion and the Ethics of Unarmed Resistance
11 | Bearers of Hope: On the Paradox of Nonviolent Action
Hostage Taking and Prisoners
12 | A Cooperative Globalist Approach to the Hostage Dilemma
13 | Kidnapping and Extortion as Tactics of Soft War
Conclusion
14 | Proportionate Self-Defense in Unarmed Conflict
References
Index
