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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “michael skerker”
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  • An Ethics of Interrogation

    by Michael Skerker ...
    The act of interrogation, and the debate over its use, pervades our culture, whether through fictionalized depictions in movies and television or discussions of real-life interrogations on the news. But despite daily mentions of the practice in the media, there is a lack of informed commentary on its moral implications. Moving beyond the narrow focus on torture that has characterized most work on ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Moral Status of Combatants

    A New Theory of Just War

    by Michael Skerker ...
    Series series War, Conflict and Ethics
    This book develops a new contractualist foundation for just war theory, which defends the traditional view of the moral equality of combatants and associated egalitarian moral norms.Traditionally it has been viewed that combatants on both sides of a war have the same right to fight, irrespective of the justice of their cause, and both sides must observe the same restrictions on the use of force, ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Sovereignty and the New Executive Authority

    Edited by Claire Finkelstein, Michael Skerker ...
    Series series Ethics, National Security, and the Rule of Law
    The idea of sovereignty and the debates that surround it are not merely of historical, academic, or legal interest: they are also potent, vibrant issues and as current and relevant as today's front page news in the United States and in other Western democracies. In the post- 9/11 United States, the growth of the national security state has resulted in a growing struggle to maintain the legal and ... Read more

    $114.99 CAD

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    "Brilliant . . . a must read for veterans and those who seek to understand them."—Huffington PostThe Untold War draws on revealing interviews with servicemen and -women to offer keen psychological and philosophical insights into the experience of being a soldier. Bringing to light the ethical quandaries that soldiers face—torture, the thin line between fighters and civilians, and the anguish of ... Read more

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  • The Phenomenon of Torture

    Readings and Commentary

    by Juan E. Méndez ...
    Series series Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
    Torture is the most widespread human rights crime in the modern world, practiced in more than one hundred countries, including the United States. How could something so brutal, almost unthinkable, be so prevalent? The Phenomenon of Torture: Readings and Commentary is designed to answer that question and many others. Beginning with a sweeping view of torture in Western history, the book examines ... Read more

    $72.99 CAD

  • A Field Guide for Female Interrogators

    by Coco Fusco ...
    The world was shocked by the images that emerged from Abu Ghraib, the US-controlled prison in Iraq. Lynndie England, the young female army officer shown smiling devilishly as she humiliated male prisoners, became first a scapegoat and then a victim who was "just following orders." Ignored were the more elemental questions of how women are functioning within conservative power structures of ... Read more

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  • Police: A Field Guide

    by David Correia, Tyler Wall ...
    A radical guide to the language of policingThis field guide arms activists—and indeed anyone concerned about police abuse—with critical insights that ultimately redefine the very idea of policing. When we talk about police and police reform, we speak the language of police legitimation through euphemism. So state sexual assault becomes “body-cavity search,” and ruthless beatings “non-compliance ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Preventive State

    The Challenge of Preventing Serious Harms While Preserving Essential Liberties

    by Alan Dershowitz ...
    "You shall thank Alan Dershowitz for writing this [valuable] book."—Stephen Breyer, Former Associate Justice of the Supreme CourtIf reliable but uncertain intelligence predicted a mass casualty terrorist attack and indicated likely suspects,what preventive actions would be constitutionally authorized? Detention? Interrogation? Torture? What if the attack involved a weaponized virus? Should the ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Just War

    Authority, Tradition, and Practice

    by Anthony F. Lang Jr., Cian O'Driscoll, John Williams, James Turner Johnson, Chris Brown, Nigel Biggar, Laura Sjoberg, Nahed Artoul Zehr0, Tarik Kochi1, Gregory M. Reichberg2, Joseph Boyle3, Brent J. Steele4, Michael Gross5, Neta C. Crawford6, Martin L. Cook7, John Kelsay8, Nicholas Rengger9 ...
    The just war tradition is central to the practice of international relations, in questions of war, peace, and the conduct of war in the contemporary world, but surprisingly few scholars have questioned the authority of the tradition as a source of moral guidance for modern statecraft. Just War: Authority, Tradition, and Practice brings together many of the most important contemporary writers on ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Terrorism, Ticking Time-Bombs, and Torture

    A Philosophical Analysis

    by Fritz Allhoff ...
    A provocative philosophical investigation into the ethics of torture, The War on Terror, and making tough choices in exceptional circumstances.The general consensus among philosophers is that the use of torture is never justified. In Terrorism, Ticking Time-Bombs, and Torture, Fritz Allhoff demonstrates the weakness of the case against torture; while allowing that torture constitutes a moral wrong ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Spying Through a Glass Darkly

    The Ethics of Espionage and Counter-Intelligence

    by Cécile Fabre ...
    Cécile Fabre draws back the curtain on the ethics of espionage and counterintelligence. Espionage and counter-intelligence activities, both real and imagined, weave a complex and alluring story. Yet there is hardly any serious philosophical work on the subject. Cécile Fabre presents a systematic account of the ethics of espionage and counterintelligence. She argues that such operations, in the ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Because It Is Wrong

    Torture, Privacy and Presidential Power in the Age of Terror

    by Charles Fried, Gregory Fried ...
    Elevating the torture and privacy debate, this book brilliantly challenges the knee-jerk responses of those in media and government.Can torture ever be justified? When is eavesdropping acceptable? Should a kidnapper be waterboarded to reveal where his victim has been hidden? Ever since 9/11 there has been an intense debate about the government’s application of torture and the pervasive use of ... Read more

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