Privatizing War

A Moral Theory

William Feldman (Harvard University’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital, USA)

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English

Routledge
20 June 2016

Ethics & moral philosophy; Armed conflict; Theory of warfare & military science

Series: War, Conflict and Ethics

This book offers a comprehensive moral theory of privatization in war.

It examines the kind of wars that private actors might wage separate from the state and the kind of wars that private actors might wage as functionaries of the state. The first type of war serves to probe the ad bellum question of whether private actors can justifiably authorize war, while the second type of war serves to probe the in bello question of whether private actors can justifiably participate in war. The cases that drive the analysis are drawn from the rich and complicated history of private military action, stretching back centuries to the Italian city-states whose mercenaries were reviled by Machiavelli. The book also takes up the hypothetical examples conjured by philosophers—the private protective agencies of Robert Nozick’s Anarchy, State, and Utopia, for example, and the private armies of Thomas More’s Utopia. The aim of this book is to propose a theory of privatization that retains currency not only in assessing current military engagements, but past and future ones as well. In doing so, it also raises a set of important questions about the very enterprise of war.

This book will be of much interest to students of ethics, political philosophy, military studies, international relations, war and conflict studies, and security studies.

By: William Feldman (Harvard University’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital USA)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 408g
ISBN: 9781138803954
ISBN 10: 1138803952
Series: War, Conflict and Ethics
Pages: 190
Publication Date: 20 June 2016
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

William Brand Feldman has a DPhil. in Politics from the University of Oxford and is a resident physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School.