Description
Over the years, the Bush Doctrine - that the security threats we face are entirely unprecedented - has echoed around the world. This book states that global security and stability is challenged not only by states and nuclear war, but by insurgency, disease, environmental degradation and military privatisation.
Chapter
Rethinking the 21st Century
The ‘New’ Problems and their ‘Old’ Solutions
2 Popular Support and Terrorism
Terrorism: Not New but Now Global
John Locke’s Right of Rebellion
A Lockean Approach to Global Terrorism
The Just War Debate on Preventive War
The George W. Bush Discourse on Preventive War
A Crew of Preventive War Standards: Sun Tzu, Augustine, and Vattel
Judging ‘New’ Preventive War
4 Genocide: An Obligation to Fight?
Just War Theory in the 21st Century
5 Justifying Changes in International Norms of Sovereignty
Absolute and Contingent Sovereignty
Current Political and Academic Debates on Sovereignty
Explaining ‘New’ Norms through an ‘Old’ Lens
Cognitive Dissonance and Norm Change
The United States and the War on Terror
Stated US Views on Sovereignty before the War in Afghanistan
Figure 5.1 US conceptions of sovereignty before military intervention
Stated US Views on Sovereignty after the War in Afghanistan Began
Figure 5.2 US conceptions of sovereignty before and during military intervention
6 Honorable Soldiers, Questionable Wars?
The Principle of Double Effect
Figure 6.1 The relationship between effect and side effect
Hypothetical People in Real Wars
Moral Consequences of Applying the Principle of Double Effect
Defending the Principle of Double Effect
The State and the Use of Force
Force and the Private Market
Just War Theory and the Restraint of War
War in a Privatized World
8 The Problem of Patriotism
Building a Bridge (Back) to the Twentieth Century: Another Great Illusion?
Building a Bridge to the Eighteenth Century: The End of Patriotism
We’re Looking for a Few Good Grandmothers: Trials and Travails of the Volunteer Military
Alienated War and Personal Responsibility
Economic Sanctions in Post-Cold War Security Discourses
Current Theoretical Approaches to Economic Sanctions
The ‘Old’ Problem of Economic Sanctions
‘Old’ Solutions to the Economic Sanctions Problem
Bentham’s Theory of Sanction
10 Pandemic Influenza and Security
Domestic Responses to Pandemic Influenza
Global Public Goods for Health
A Succession of Dangerous Spaces and an Ideology of Putrefaction
Humanitarianism, Biopolitics, and Global Space