Christopher J. Finlay

Terrorism and the Right to Resist

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Produktbeschreibung

A systematic account of the right to resist oppression and of the forms of armed force it can justify.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 354
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 666g
• ISBN-13: 9781107040939
• ISBN-10: 1107040930
• Artikelnr.: 42363980

Autorenporträt

Christopher J. Finlay is Reader in Political Theory in the Department of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Birmingham. He previously taught history at Trinity College Dublin and political philosophy at University College Dublin.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
Part I. Theory and Principles: 2. Justice, oppression and the right to resist
3. Rights worth killing for
4. The codes of resistance
5. Rights worth dying for: distributing the costs of resistance
Part II. Wars of Liberation: Fighting within the Standard JIB: 6. Non-state groups and the authority to wage war
7. Guerrilla war, discrimination and the problem of lawful irregulars
Part III. Fighting beyond the Law of War: 8. The partisan jus in bello: resistance beyond the laws of war
9. Terrorist war
10. Back to the start: the ethics of beginning
Conclusions.