Moral Responsibility in Twenty-First-Century Warfare

Steven C. Roach is Professor of International Relations at the University of South Florida. He is the author of Decency and Difference: Humanity and the Global Challenge of Identity Politics and Critical Theory of International Politics: Complementarity, Justice, and Governance. Amy E. Eckert is Professor of Political Science at Metropolitan State University of Denver. Her books include Outsourcing War: The Just War Tradition in the Age of Military Privatization and The Future of Just War: New Critical Essays (coedited with Caron E. Gentry).

"…Moral Responsibility in Twenty-First-Century Warfare is a valuable addition to the study of AWS and JWT that answers important ethical questions of modern warfare." — Perspectives on Politics"The volume contributes significantly to an ever-expanding discussion of war, just war, violence, and moral responsibility … Highly recommended." — CHOICE"This book wrestles with issues that are timely and relevant." — Todd Burkhardt, author of Just War and Human Rights: Fighting with Right Intention"Expertly written, this volume offers new ways to think through the ethics of broad theoretical concerns such as the legitimation of moral authority and the challenges to identifying the proper locus of moral responsibility in warfare, as well as provides applied-ethics analyses of different aspects of lethal autonomous weapons systems." — Eric A. Heinze, University of Oklahoma

• IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Dual Moral Responsibility and the Ethical Challenges of Twenty-First-Century WarfareSteven C. Roach and Amy E. EckertPart I: Just War and Moral Authority 1. Defending Conventionalist Just War Theory in the Face of Twenty-First-Century WarfarePeter Sutch2. The Fantasy of Nonviolence and the End (?) of Just WarLaura Sjoberg3. Contemporary Nuclear Deterrence Dynamics and the Question of Dual Moral ResponsibilityThomas E. Doyle II4. Private Military and Security Companies: Justifying Moral Responsibility through Self-RegulationSommer MitchellPart II: Autonomous Weapons Systems and Moral Responsibility 5. The Rights of (Killer) RobotsDavid J. Gunkel6. No Hands or Many Hands? Deproblematizing the Case for Lethal Autonomous Weapons SystemsJai Galliott7. Ethical Weapons: A Case for AI in WeaponsJason B. Scholz, Dale A. Lambert, Robert S. Bolia, and Jai GalliottConclusion: The Future (Idea) of Just War and Autonomous Weapons SystemsSteven C. RoachContributorsIndex