Soft War: The Ethics Of Unarmed Conflict

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Just war theory focuses primarily on bodily harm, such as killing, maiming, and torture, while other harms are often largely overlooked. At the same time, contemporary international conflicts increasingly involve the use of unarmed tactics, employing 'softer' alternatives or supplements to kinetic power that have not been sufficiently addressed by the ethics of war or international law. Soft war tactics include cyber-warfare and economic sanctions, media warfare, and propaganda, as well as non-violent resistance as it plays out in civil disobedience, boycotts, and 'lawfare.' While the just war tradition has much to say about 'hard' war - bullets, bombs, and bayonets - it is virtually silent on the subject of 'soft' war. Soft War: The Ethics of Unarmed Conflict illuminates this neglected aspect of international conflict. Cover Half Title Title Copyright Contents Contributors Foreword Preface Introduction Soft War: The Ethics of Unarmed Conflict Definitions and Meta Views 1 | Defining War 2 | Coercion, Manipulation, and Harm: Civilian Immunity and Soft War Economic Warfare 3 | Reconsidering Economic Sanctions 4 | Conditional Sale Cyber Warfare, Media Warfare, and Lawfare 5 | State-Sponsored Hacktivism and the Rise of “Soft” War 6 | Media Warfare, Propaganda, and the Law of War 7 | The Ethics of Soft War on Today’s Mediatized Battlespaces 8 | Abuse of Law on the Twenty-First-Century Battlefield: A Typology of Lawfare Nonviolence 9 | Unarmed Bodyguards to the Rescue? The Ethics of Nonviolent Intervention 10 | How Subversive Are Human Rights? Civil Subversion and the Ethics of Unarmed Resistance 11 | Bearers of Hope: On the Paradox of Nonviolent Action Hostage Taking and Prisoners 12 | A Cooperative Globalist Approach to the Hostage Dilemma 13 | Kidnapping and Extortion as Tactics of Soft War Conclusion 14 | Proportionate Self-Defense in Unarmed Conflict References Index