Rethinking the 21st Century :New' Problems, 'Old' Solutions ( 1 )

Publication subTitle :New' Problems, 'Old' Solutions

Publication series :1

Author: Eckert   Doctor Amy;Sjoberg   Laura;Glazier   Doctor Rebecca  

Publisher: Zed Books‎

Publication year: 2009

E-ISBN: 9781848134317

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781848130067

Subject: D8 Diplomacy, International Relations

Keyword: 外交、国际关系

Language: ENG

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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

New Problems

Old Solutions

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

Conclusion

3 Preventive Warfare

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

An Obligation to Fight?

Case Study: Rwanda

Conclusion

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

Determining Dissonance

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

Conclusion

6 Honorable Soldiers, Questionable Wars?

The Principle of Double Effect

Figure 6.1 The relationship between effect and side effect

Intending to Go to War

Hypothetical People in Real Wars

Moral Consequences of Applying the Principle of Double Effect

Defending the Principle of Double Effect

Conclusion

7 Outsourcing War

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

Conclusion

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

9 Sanctions as War

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

Conclusion

10 Pandemic Influenza and Security

Pandemic Influenza

The Security Dimension

Domestic Responses to Pandemic Influenza

Global Public Goods for Health

Conclusion

11 Natural Disasters

Norms and Sovereignty

Norms and Meaning

A Succession of Dangerous Spaces and an Ideology of Putrefaction

Humanitarianism, Biopolitics, and Global Space

Conclusion

Conclusion

New Problems

Old Solutions

Notes

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

References

Notes on Contributors

Index

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