Ethical Dilemmas in the Global Defense Industry (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Schoeni, Daniel; Vestner, Tobias

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The defense industry develops, produces, and sells weapons that cause great harm. It operates at the intersection of the public and private sectors, with increased reliance on technology companies. Although such firms exist primarily to serve their host states, they routinely interact with foreign legal systems and diverse cultures. This context creates unique ethical challenges. That being the case, is the defense industry ethically defensible? How should it be regulated? How should it respond to worrisome technological developments such as autonomous weapons systems? How should business be conducted in countries where bribery is the norm? To what extent can this industry's intrinsic ethical problems be overcome? This book addresses such questions, bringing together the diverse perspectives of scholars and practitioners from academia, government service, the military, and the private sector. It aims to inform a discussion about the moral and legal challenges facing the global defense industry and to introduce solutions that are innovative, effective, and practical.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. März 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780190675837
• Artikelnr.: 70247591

Autorenporträt

DANIEL SCHOENI has been with the U.S. Air Force JAG Corps since 2004 and is currently assigned to Air Force Materiel Command at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. He has served as a prosecutor, trial and appellate defense counsel, program counsel, and staff judge advocate. He recently completed a Ph.D. in public procurement law at the University of Nottingham, has lectured at King's College London since 2017, and is a professorial lecturer in law at George Washington University. TOBIAS VESTNER is Head of the Research and Policy Advice Department and Head of the Security and Law Programme at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy. He has co-authored International Law and Policy on the Protection of Civilians (2022) and A Guide to International Disarmament Law (2019). He is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Exeter, a Fellow at Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe, and a Non-Resident Fellow at the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research. Previously, he was Research Affiliate and Global Futures Fellow at Georgetown University and Policy Advisor at the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgements
* Foreword, Leo Mackay
* Introduction, Daniel E. Schoeni and Tobias Vestner
* PART I: ASSESSING ETHICAL NORMS IN THE DEFENSE INDUSTRY
* Chapter 1. Tobias Vestner, The Defense Industry's Contribution to
National Security
* Chapter 2. Duncan MacIntosh, The Sniper and the Psychopath: A Parable
in Defense of the Weapons Industry
* Chapter 3. Richard W. Painter, Fiduciary Duties of Officers and
Directors of Military Contractors: Shareholder Primacy or Loyalty to
the United States?
* Chapter 4. C. Edward Peartree, What Ethical Dilemmas? The U.S.
Defense Industry and Foreign Arms Sales
* PART II: ETHICAL DILEMMAS RELATING TO NEW MILITARY TECHNOLOGIES
* Chapter 5. Thomas E. Ayres, Kevin Govern, and Michael W. Meier, The
Ethics of Better Weapons: A Soldier Lawyer's View
* Chapter 6. Brian Green, Space Ethics for the Modern Warrior
* Chapter 7. Jeffrey Biller and Timothy Goins, Protecting Civilian Data
in Armed Conflicts: The Need for an Ethical Foundation
* Chapter 8. Blake Hereth and Nicholas G. Evans, Artificial
Intelligence and the Cost-Sharing Dilemma
* PART III: ADDRESSING CORRUPTION IN GLOBAL MARKETS
* Chapter 9. Philip M. Nichols, Defense Firms' Duties to Society When
Presented with an Opportunity to Pay a Bribe
* Chapter 10. Mark Pyman, Tackling Defense Corruption: A "Whole Sector"
Approach
* Chapter 11. Nancy Hite-Rubin, The Nexus of Arms Embargoes,
Corruption, and Foreign Investment
* Chapter 12. Daniel E. Schoeni, Some Ethical Dimensions of Defense
Offsets
* PART IV: INNOVATIONS FOR IMPROVING ETHICS AND COMPLIANCE IN THE
DEFENSE INDUSTRY
* Chapter 13. Michael Davis, Ethical Issues in the Global Arms
Industry: A Role for Engineers
* Chapter 14. Christopher R. Yukins, Mandatory Disclosure: How
Anti-Corruption Measures Can Affect Competition in Defense Markets
* Chapter 15. Jessica Tillipman and Vijaya Surampudi, The Compliance
Mentor-Protege Program: Improving Compliance in Small to Mid-Sized
Contractors
* Chapter 16. Patricia H. Werhane, Silo Mentalities, Dominant Logics,
and Their Ethical Challenges in the Defense Industry
* PART V: CONCLUSION
* Chapter 17. Steven L. Schooner and Evan Matsuda, Strange Bedfellows:
Representative Democracy and Academic Engagement with the Defense
Industry