TY  - BOOK
AU  - Roach,Steven C.
AU  - Eckert,Amy E.
TI  - Moral responsibility in twenty-first-century warfare: just war theory and the ethical challenges of autonomous weapons systems 
T2  - SUNY series in Ethics and the Challenges of Contemporary Warfare
SN  - 9781438480015
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Albany, NY
PB  - Suny Press
KW  - ethics
KW  - war
KW  - warfare
KW  - nonviolence
KW  - nucleaar deterrence
KW  - artificial intelligence
KW  - USA
KW  - PSCs
KW  - AWS
KW  - just war
KW  - autonomous weapon systems
KW  - killer robots
KW  - private military and security companies
N1  - SIP2409; Moral Responsibility in Twenty-First-Century Warfare explores the complex relationship between just war theory and the ethics of autonomous weapons systems (AWS). One of the challenges facing ethicists of war, particularly just war theorists, is that AWS is an applicative concept that seems, in many ways, to lie beyond the human(ist) scope of the just war theory tradition. The book examines the various ethical gaps between just war theory and the legal and moral status of AWS, addresses the limits of both traditional and revisionist just war theory, and proposes ways of bridging some of these gaps. It adopts a dualistic notion of moral responsibility—or differing, related notions of moral responsibility and legitimate authority—to study the conflicts and contradictions of legitimizing the autonomous weapons that are designed to secure peace and neutralize the effects of violence. Focusing on the changing conditions and dynamics of accountability, responsibility, autonomy, and rights in twenty-first-century warfare, the volume sheds light on the effects of violence and the future ethics of modern warfare
N2  - Moral Responsibility in Twenty-First-Century Warfare explores the complex relationship between just war theory and the ethics of autonomous weapons systems (AWS). One of the challenges facing ethicists of war, particularly just war theorists, is that AWS is an applicative concept that seems, in many ways, to lie beyond the human(ist) scope of the just war theory tradition. The book examines the various ethical gaps between just war theory and the legal and moral status of AWS, addresses the limits of both traditional and revisionist just war theory, and proposes ways of bridging some of these gaps. It adopts a dualistic notion of moral responsibility - or differing, related notions of moral responsibility and legitimate authority - to study the conflicts and contradictions of legitimizing the autonomous weapons that are designed to secure peace and neutralize the effects of violence. Focusing on the changing conditions and dynamics of accountability, responsibility, autonomy, and rights in twenty-first-century warfare, the volume sheds light on the effects of violence and the future ethics of modern warfare
ER  -