The moral dimension of asymmetrical warfare : counter-terrorism, democratic values and military ethics / / by Th. A. van Baarda and D.E.M. Verweij (eds.) ; with a foreword by Richard Dannett.

• Author: Nederlandse Defensie Academie.
• TeilnehmendeR: Baarda, Ted van.; Verweij, Desiree.; Nederlandse Defensie Academie.; Netherlands Institute for Military Ethics.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Physical Description: xi, 529 p. :; ill.
• Notes: "Report of an international conference hosted by the Ministry for Defence of the Netherlands and the Netherlands Defence Academy."; "Publication of the Netherlands Institute for Military Ethics (NIME)."

Table of Contents

The moral dimension of asymmetrical warfare : an introduction / Ted van Baarda -- Questioning the resort to U.S. hegemonic military force / Harry van der Linden -- Asymmetric air war : ethical implications / Martin L. Cook and Mark Conversino -- Reframing asymmetrical warfare : beyond the just war idea / Thomas Frank -- Armed intervention and democratic dreams : small western liberal democracies and multinational intervention / Allard Wagemaker -- Asymmetric warfare and morality : from moral asymmetry to amoral symmetry? / Carl Ceulemans -- Military operations by armed UN peacekeeping missions : an application of generalized just war principles / John W. Lango -- The moral dimension of asymmetrical warfare : accountability, culpability and military effectiveness / Daren Bowyer -- British leaders and irregular warfare / David Benest -- The lesson avoided : the official legacy of the My Lai massacre / Lawrence P. Rockwood -- Culpability : senior leaders have dirty hands / Donald A. MacCuish -- Between violence and restraint : human rights, humanitarian considerations, and the Israeli military in the al-Aqsa intifada / Eyal Ben-Ari -- The phenomenon of Breaking the Silence in Israel : "witnessing" as consciousness raising strategy of Israeli ex-combatants / Erella Grassiani --

Ethics in the core of officer education : some philosophical aspects for curriculum transformation / Jarmo Toiskallio -- Why people make the wrong choices : the psychology of ethical failure / J. Peter Bradley -- (Dis)respecting the law of armed conflict in asymmetrical warfare? : a consequentialist approach to a consequentialist question / Daniel S. Blocq -- Moral dynamics in culture centric warfare / Patrick Mileham -- Dilemmas in the employment of combat stress-related clinical research : the imperative of prevention / Eric Vermetten -- Politics, media and war coverage : an indexed relation? / Javier G. Marin and Oscar G. Luengo -- Asymmetrical warfare and modern digital media : an old concept changed by new technology? / Uros Svete -- Security versus liberty? : ethical lessons from post-9/11 American counter-terrorist security politics / Wim Smit -- Saying no to torture : a moral absolute, self-righteous or just naive? / Maureen Ramsay -- Dirty war, or : how democracies can lose in the fight against terrorism / Asta Maskaliunaite -- Human dignity in the era of counter-terrorism / Ted van Baarda and Desiree Verweij.