Soft War: The Ethics of Unarmed Conflict
Cambridge University Press, 6/22/2017
EAN 9781107584785, ISBN10: 1107584787
Paperback, 284 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English
Just war theory focuses primarily on bodily harm, such as killing, maiming, and torture, while other harms are often largely overlooked. At the same time, contemporary international conflicts increasingly involve the use of unarmed tactics, employing 'softer' alternatives or supplements to kinetic power that have not been sufficiently addressed by the ethics of war or international law. Soft war tactics include cyber-warfare and economic sanctions, media warfare, and propaganda, as well as non-violent resistance as it plays out in civil disobedience, boycotts, and 'lawfare.' While the just war tradition has much to say about 'hard' war - bullets, bombs, and bayonets - it is virtually silent on the subject of 'soft' war. Soft War: The Ethics of Unarmed Conflict illuminates this neglected aspect of international conflict.
Introduction Michael L. Gross and Tamar Meisels
Part I. Definitions and Meta Views
1. Defining war Jessica Wolfendale
2. Coercion, manipulation, and harm
civilian immunity and soft war Valerie MorkeviÄÂius
Part II. Economic Warfare
3. Reconsidering economic sanctions Joy Gordon
4. Conditional sale Cécile Fabre
Part III. Cyber Warfare, Media Warfare, and Lawfare
5. State-sponsored hacktivism and the rise of 'soft' war George R. Lucas, Jr
6. Media warfare, propaganda, and the law of war Laurie R. Blank
7. The ethics of soft war on today's mediatized battlespaces Sebastian Kaempf
8. Abuse of law on the 21st-century battlefield
a typology of lawfare Janina Dill
Part IV. Nonviolence
9. Unarmed bodyguards to the rescue? The ethics of non-violent intervention James Pattison
10. How subversive are human rights? Civil subversion and the ethics of unarmed resistance Christopher J. Finlay
11. Bearers of hope on the paradox of non-violent action Cheney Ryan
Part V. Hostage Taking and Prisoners
12. A cooperative globalist approach to the hostage dilemma Ariel Colonomos
13. Kidnapping and extortion as tactics of soft war Tamar Meisels
14. Conclusions
proportionate self defense in unarmed conflict Michael L. Gross.