
What Does It Mean To Win A Moral Victory? Ideals Of Just And Decisive Triumphs Often Colour The Call To War, Yet Victory Is An Increasingly Dubious Proposition In Modern Conflict, Where Negotiated Settlements And Festering Violence Have Replaced Formal Surrenders. In The Just War And Strategic Studies Traditions, Assumptions About Victory Also Underpin Decisions To Go To War But Become More Problematic In Discussions About Its Conduct And Conclusion. So Although Winning Is Typically Considered The Very Object Of War, We Lack A Clear Understanding Of Victory Itself. Likewise, We Lack Reliable Resources For Discerning A Just From An Unjust Victory, For Balancing The Duty To Fight Ethically With The Obligation To Win, And For Assessing The Significance Of Changing Ways Of War For Moral Judgment. Though Not Amenable To Easy Answers, These Important Questions Are Both Perennial And Especially Urgent. This Book Brings Together A Group Of Leading Scholars From Various Disciplines To Tackle Them. It Covers Both Traditions Of Victory - Charting The Historically Variable Notion Of Victory And The Dialogues And Fissures This Opens In The Just War And Strategic Canons - Along With Contemporary Challenges Of Victory- Analysing How New Security Contexts Put Pressure On These Fissures And Working Toward Clearer Ideas About Victory Today. The Result Is A Wide-ranging And Timely Collection Of Essays That Bridges The Gap Between Ethical, Strategic, And Historical Approaches To War And Develops New Ways Of Thinking About It As A Practical And Moral Proposition.
This book investigates the conceptual ambiguity of victory in modern warfare and the ethical challenges inherent in balancing the duty to fight justly with the strategic imperative to win. The authors, a collective of leading scholars in strategic studies and ethics, examine how traditional notions of decisive triumph have become increasingly difficult to reconcile with contemporary conflict environments. By synthesizing historical perspectives with modern security challenges, the text provides a framework for evaluating the moral legitimacy of outcomes in wars that rarely end in formal surrender.
What You Will Find
Scope Limits
Experts identify this collection as a significant contribution to the intersection of ethics and strategic studies, particularly for its effort to modernize the discourse on war termination. Readers frequently note the academic density of the prose, which is intended for scholars and practitioners engaged in international relations and political philosophy.
Page Count:
280
Publication Date:
2017-01-01
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
ISBN-10:
0192521977
ISBN-13:
9780192521972
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