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Once again Perry has provided an ethicist's insights into the study of warfare's uglier aspects. This new edition updates the case studies and vignettes that make this reference so valuable. Perry transports the context of espionage, atrocities, assassination, and torture from medieval times into the 21st century, and his new chapter on battlefield euthanasia is especially compelling. He disabuses us of the delusion that dirty deeds are purely attributable to the demonic enemy and forces us to face the darker side of our common humanity. This book belongs in the hands, minds, and hearts of military leaders and civilian policymakers everywhere!
David L. Perry
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Oct, 2016
9781442262041
111,342
Political Science--GeneralPolitical Science--Intelligence & EspionagePolitical Science--Security (National & International)
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Preface
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Preface
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I grew up in the great Pacific Northwest, more specifically the Puget Sound area; Tacoma, to be precise. It rains frequently there, and even when it’s not raining, it’s often overcast. I didn’t find that nearly as depressing as some other residents do, especially those raised in sunnier climates. But I certainly looked forward to days when it was only partly cloudy, when...
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Acknowledgments
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The first and second editions of this book have been nearly thirty years in the making, though not as a continuous project to the exclusion of other research. Much of my teaching and writing from 1989–2003 and since 2009 has focused instead on comparative professional ethics in medicine, law, business, and journalism. In the early 1980s at the University of Chicago Divinity School, I...
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Chapter 1 - An Introduction to Ethical Reasoning
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Consider two scenarios: (1) a man points a gun at another man and shoots him dead, and (2) a woman lies to her family and friends about her occupation. Do those scenarios raise moral or ethical concerns? Obviously. Are the actions that they describe unethical or immoral? Most readers would probably say yes, at least at first glance (prima facie). But now consider the following permutations...
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Chapter 2 - Comparative Religious Perspectives on War
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This chapter highlights a wide range of ethical views on killing and war in several of the world’s major religious traditions. One can learn a lot about a religion or culture by paying close attention to how it answers the question, Is it ever right to kill?2. Although...
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Chapter 3 - Just and Unjust War in Shakespeare’s Henry V
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Most of us assume that we have a basic right not to be killed. We might not consider this to be an absolute right—since it would entail strict pacifism—but rather what philosophers call a prima facie right (as explained in chapter 1). For example, we might be said to forfeit our right not to be killed if we commit a particularly heinous crime like aggravated...
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Chapter 4 - Anticipating and Preventing Atrocities in War
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Chapter 5 - Battlefield Euthanasia
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I have never experienced war directly. But in teaching and writing about the subject for nearly twenty years, I’ve tried to imagine...
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Chapter 6 - Secret Intelligence and American Democracy
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Few people today would dispute the claim that the consent of the governed is a necessary condition for legitimate government. Even illegitimate rulers pay lip service to the concept of popular consent in designating their regimes “people’s republics” and the like. Yet if consent is clearly fundamental to the Constitution of legitimate political authority, it is less obvious how...
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Chapter 7 - The KGB
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At the conclusion of John Ranelagh’s 1987 history of the CIA, he opined that the CIA was no longer viewed by Americans as the world’s savior or corruptor, but rather “as a reminder of how old and corrupt and incorrigible the rest of the world...
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Chapter 8 - Espionage
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Chapter 9 - Covert Action
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There is a sense in which espionage or clandestine intelligence collection by itself represents a kind of intervention into another country’s political affairs, since it can result in foreign officials assuming that certain important secrets are safe when they are in fact not safe, and in their ignorance making plans they might not otherwise make, etc. It’s also true that an espionage...
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Chapter 10 - Targeted Killing
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The term “assassination” typically connotes the murder of a political leader or otherwise prominent person, as in the killings of presidents Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy as well as Martin Luther King Jr.3. W. Hays Parks, “Memorandum on Executive...
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Chapter 11 - Interrogation
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In our country’s contemporary efforts to combat terrorists, we face some difficult ethical questions: Do ruthless enemies merit or deserve ruthless countermeasures? Should we uphold high ethical standards even against unlawful combatants who don’t respect them? Or, in order to preserve what we value most, are we morally justified in using tactics (such as torture in...
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Epilogue
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All of us are bound to recognize and uphold a number of objective and strong (albeit prima facie) ethical principles, including compassion for others and respect for their autonomy and dignity. Such principles do not entail strict pacifism nor forbid secret intelligence operations entirely. But they do require anyone in a position to authorize war, espionage, covert action or...
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Index
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aretaic (claims, considerations, principles focusing on character traits, virtues and vices), 4, 6–7, 63, 66, 70–72, 108–9, 140–48, 152,...
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About the Author
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Dr. David L. Perry is professor of applied ethics and director of the Vann Center for Ethics at Davidson College in North Carolina. There he has hosted over 100 public forums on a wide range of ethical issues, drawing a total of over 11,000 attendees, and taught courses on ethics and warfare, ethics in professional life, business ethics, the moral status of...
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In this post–September 11, 2001, era there has been rapid growth in the number of professional intelligence training and educational programs across the United States and abroad. Colleges and universities, as well as high schools, are developing programs and courses in homeland security, intelligence analysis, and law enforcement, in support of national security.
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