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New Wine and Old Bottles: International Politics and Ethical Discourse. By Jean Bethke Elshtain. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1998. 104p. $14.95 paper
In: American political science review, Volume 94, Issue 2, p. 445-446
ISSN: 1537-5943
U.S. Unilateral Arms Control Initiatives: When Do They Work? By William Rose. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1988. 199p. $39.95. - American Interests, American Purpose: Moral Reasoning and U.S. Foreign Policy. By George Weigel. New York: Praeger, 1989. Center for Strategic and International Studies, Paper...
In: American political science review, Volume 84, Issue 4, p. 1455-1457
ISSN: 1537-5943
Crisis and War. By Patrick James. Montreal: McGill Queen's University Press, 1988. 200p. $32.95
In: American political science review, Volume 84, Issue 1, p. 362-363
ISSN: 1537-5943
The American Debate on Nuclear Weapons Policy: A Review of the Literature 1945-1985
In: Analyse & Kritik: journal of philosophy and social theory, Volume 9, Issue 1-2, p. 7-46
ISSN: 2365-9858
Abstract
Criticism of nuclear weapons policies often misses the target through ignorance of the policies that are actually in effect. This essay recounts the development of American nuclear weapons policies, together with a history of the criticisms of these policies presented by nuclear strategists and moral philosophers.
A Single Subject in Multiple Protocols: Is the Risk Equitable?
In: IRB: ethics & human research, Volume 8, Issue 1, p. 8
ISSN: 2326-2222
Immoral Risks: A Deontological Critique of Nuclear Deterrence
In: Social philosophy & policy, Volume 3, Issue 1, p. 154-175
ISSN: 1471-6437
I. Beyond UtilitarianismIn the summer of 1982, I published an article called "Missiles and Morals," in which I argued on utilitarian grounds that nuclear deterrence in its present form is not morally justifiable. The argument of "Missiles and Morals" compared the most likely sort of nuclear war to develop under nuclear deterrence (DET) with the most likely sort of nuclear war to develop under American unilateral nuclear disaramament (UND). For a variety of reasons, I claimed diat the number of casualties in a two-sided nuclear war developing under DET would be at least fifteen times greater than the number of casualties in a one-sided nuclear attack developing under UND. If one assumes that human lives lost or saved is the principal criterion by which nuclear weapons policies should be measured, it follows that DET is morally superior to UND on utilitarian grounds only if the chance of a two-sided nuclear war under DET is more than fifteen times less dian the chance of a one-sided nuclear attack under UND. Since I did not believe that the chance of nuclear war under deterrence is fifteen times less than the chance of nuclear war under unilateral nuclear disarmament, I inferred diat utilitaranism failed to justify DET. Indeed, on utilitarian grounds, DET stood condemned.
A Problem of Collective Action
In: IRB: ethics & human research, Volume 5, Issue 5, p. 10
ISSN: 2326-2222
Which Subjects Should an IRB Protect? Two Moral Models
In: IRB: ethics & human research, Volume 4, Issue 7, p. 5
ISSN: 2326-2222
BOOK REVIEWS - Political Theory - New Wine and Old Bottles: International Politics and Ethical Discourse
In: American political science review, Volume 94, Issue 2, p. 445
ISSN: 0003-0554
International criminal law and philosophy
In: ASIL Studies in International Legal Theory
International crimes and universal jurisdiction / Win-chiat Lee State sovereignty as an obstacle to international criminal law / Kristen Hessler International criminal courts, the rule of law, and the prevention of harm : building justice in times of injustice / Leslie P. Francis and John G. Francis Criminalizing culture / Helen Stacy Identifying groups in genocide cases / Larry May Prosecuting corporations for international crimes : the role for domestic criminal law / Joanna Kyriakakis Post war environmental damage : a study in jus post bellum / Douglas Lackey On state self-defense and Guantanamo Bay / Steve Viner Politicizing human rights (using international law) / Anat Biletzki The justification of punishment in the international context / Deirdre Golash Political reconciliation and international criminal trials / Colleen Murphy
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