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Ethics in Counter-Terrorism
This book intends to discuss the ethical questions of counter-terrorism for the military, with an emphasis on its counter-terrorist role in our home countries.
Jus Post Bellum
Jus Post bellum: Restraint, Stabilisation and Peace seeks to answer the question “is restraint in war essential for a just and lasting peace”? With a foreword by Professor Brian Orend who asserts this as “a most commendable subject” in extending Just War Theory, the book contains chapters on the ethics of war-fighting since the end of the Cold War and a look into the future of conflict. From the causes of war, with physical restraint and reconciliation in combat and political settlement, further chapters written by expert academics and military participants cover international humanitarian law, practicalities of the use of force and some of the failures in achieving safe and lasting peace in modern-day theatres of conflict.
Itinéraire d'un robot tueur
Des drones aux robots tueurs, les machines vont-elles, à terme, remplacer les humains sur le champ de bataille ? Derrière cette interrogation qui pourrait sembler purement militaire se cache une question qui concerne notre société dans son ensemble. Quelle place réserver aux machines douées d’intelligence artificielle dans des domaines jusqu’alors réservés à notre espèce ? Sur quels critères juger du bien-fondé de leur présence ? Et jusqu’où l’accepter ? Entre droit, éthique et philosophie, un cas emblématique des enjeux liés au développement fulgurant des technologies.
Pour un numérique au service du bien commun
Numérique partout, éthique nulle part. Depuis les premiers pas d’Internet dans les années 1980, les télécommunications et les techniques numériques ont transformé nos conditions d’existence ; pourtant, difficile d’y voir clair dans leurs implications sur notre société et sur la personne humaine. La captation et l’exploitation des données issues du traçage de la navigation sur Internet et des objets connectés font apparaître des enjeux économiques, sociétaux, écologiques et individuels d’une ampleur inédite. Dans ce livre éclairant, les auteurs se proposent de répondre aux questions éthiques et anthropologiques que nous nous posons devant les outils neufs de la m...
Pour une éthique du renseignement
Jusqu’où aller pour voler des secrets ? Jusqu’où aller pour recruter une source ou un officier de renseignement étranger ? Jusqu’à le compromettre, le piéger, le faire chanter ? Peut-on, pour le conserver, répondre à toutes ses demandes, s’il souhaite être rétribué non seulement en argent mais aussi en nature ? Le mensonge, la manipulation, la tromperie, qui sont au fondement même de l’activité, sont-ils moralement défendables ? Peut-on employer la violence physique, ou sa menace, pour obtenir des informations ? La torture n’est-elle pas parfois légitime ? Et les éliminations ciblées ? Quelles sont les obligations morales respectives des officiers traitants, des a...
Borderland Battles
The post-cold war era has seen an unmistakable trend toward the proliferation of violent non-state groups-variously labeled terrorists, rebels, paramilitaries, gangs, and criminals-near borders in unstable regions especially. In Borderland Battles, Annette Idler examines the micro-dynamics among violent non-state groups and finds striking patterns: borderland spaces consistently intensify the security impacts of how these groups compete for territorial control, cooperate in illicit cross-border activities, and replace the state in exerting governance functions. Drawing on extensive fieldwork with more than 600 interviews in and on the shared borderlands of Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela, w...
Free Will, Causality, and Neuroscience
Neuroscientists often consider free will to be an illusion. Contrary to this hypothesis, the contributions to this volume show that recent developments in neuroscience can also support the existence of free will. Firstly, the possibility of intentional consciousness is studied. Secondly, Libet’s experiments are discussed from this new perspective. Thirdly, the relationship between free will, causality and language is analyzed. This approach suggests that language grants the human brain a possibility to articulate a meaningful personal life. Therefore, human beings can escape strict biological determinism. Contributing author Sofia Bonicalzi has received funding from the European Union’s Framework Programme for Research and Innovation Horizon 2020 (2014-2020) under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Grant Agreement No. 754388 (LMUResearchFellows) and from LMUexcellent, funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the Free State of Bavaria under the Excellence Strategy of the German Federal Government and the Länder.
Responsibilities to Protect
Following the humanitarian horrors of the 1990s, the international community began to seek consensus on a new norm to help address the tension between upholding the sovereign right of states to administer their own internal affairs, and the pressing need for civilian populations to be protected from their own government in certain situations. The result was the responsibility to protect initiative from the UN, accepted as an emerging norm and based on existing legal structures although not itself necessarily accepted as law. This volume looks not only at the humanitarian-inspired interventions of the past 15 years, such as those that took place under the Force for Good banner of the UK Gover...
