The Morality of Private War: The Challenge of Private Military and Security Companies
- Submitting institution
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The University of Manchester
- Unit of assessment
- 19 - Politics and International Studies
- Output identifier
- 64081947
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN
- 978-0-19-963970-0
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- May
- Year of publication
- 2014
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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A - SoSS
- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This is a major, single-authored research monograph (over 113,000 words), based on 7-8 years of research and two grants (from the ESRC and British Academy/ACU). The monograph provides a comprehensive, detailed analysis of the ethical issues raised by private military and security companies (PMSCs), from deeply philosophical controversies about the wrongness of being a private contractor to highly empirical issues about the future of international regulation of PMSCs. In doing so, the book develops a new normative theory for assessing the legitimacy of military organisation (the ‘Cumulative Legitimacy Approach’), developing and extending Just War Theory.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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