Steven C. Roach & Amy E. Eckert 
Moral Responsibility in Twenty-First-Century Warfare [EPUB ebook] 
Just War Theory and the Ethical Challenges of Autonomous Weapons Systems

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Moral Responsibility in Twenty-First-Century Warfare explores the complex relationship between just war theory and the ethics of autonomous weapons systems (AWS). One of the challenges facing ethicists of war, particularly just war theorists, is that AWS is an applicative concept that seems, in many ways, to lie beyond the human(ist) scope of the just war theory tradition. The book examines the various ethical gaps between just war theory and the legal and moral status of AWS, addresses the limits of both traditional and revisionist just war theory, and proposes ways of bridging some of these gaps. It adopts a dualistic notion of moral responsibility—or differing, related notions of moral responsibility and legitimate authority—to study the conflicts and contradictions of legitimizing the autonomous weapons that are designed to secure peace and neutralize the effects of violence. Focusing on the changing conditions and dynamics of accountability, responsibility, autonomy, and rights in twenty-first-century warfare, the volume sheds light on the effects of violence and the future ethics of modern warfare.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Illustrations

Acknowledgments



Introduction: Dual Moral Responsibility and the Ethical Challenges of Twenty-First-Century Warfare


Steven C. Roach and Amy E. Eckert




Part I: Just War and Moral Authority



1. Defending Conventionalist Just War Theory in the Face of Twenty-First-Century Warfare


Peter Sutch



2. The Fantasy of Nonviolence and the End (?) of Just War


Laura Sjoberg



3. Contemporary Nuclear Deterrence Dynamics and the Question of Dual Moral Responsibility


Thomas E. Doyle II



4. Private Military and Security Companies: Justifying Moral Responsibility through Self-Regulation


Sommer Mitchell




Part II: Autonomous Weapons Systems and Moral Responsibility



5. The Rights of (Killer) Robots


David J. Gunkel



6. No Hands or Many Hands? Deproblematizing the Case for Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems


Jai Galliott



7. Ethical Weapons: A Case for AI in Weapons


Jason B. Scholz, Dale A. Lambert, Robert S. Bolia, and Jai Galliott



Conclusion: The Future (Idea) of Just War and Autonomous Weapons Systems


Steven C. Roach



Contributors

Index

Über den Autor

Steven C. Roach is Professor of International Relations at the University of South Florida. He is the author of
Decency and Difference: Humanity and the Global Challenge of Identity Politics and
Critical Theory of International Politics: Complementarity, Justice, and Governance.
Amy E. Eckert is Professor of Political Science at Metropolitan State University of Denver. Her books include
Outsourcing War: The Just War Tradition in the Age of Military Privatization and
The Future of Just War: New Critical Essays (coedited with Caron E. Gentry).