{"product_id":"cosmopolitan-war-9780198708575","title":"Cosmopolitan War","description":"\u003cp\u003eWar is about individuals maiming and killing each other  and yet  it seems that it is also irreducibly collective  as it is fought by groups of people and more often than not for the sake of communal values such as territorial integrity and national self-determination. Ccile Fabre articulates and defends an ethical account of war in which the individual  as a moral and rational agent  is the fundamental focus for concern and respect--both as a combatant whose acts of killing need justifying and as a non-combatant whose suffering also needs justifying. She takes as her starting point a political morality to which the individual  rather than the nation-state  is central  namely cosmopolitanism. According to cosmopolitanism  individuals all matter equally  irrespective of their membership in this or that political community. Traditional war ethics already accepts this principle  since it holds that unarmed civilians are illegitimate targets even though they belong to the enemy community. However  although the traditional account of whom we may kill in wars is broadly faithful to that principle  the traditional account of why we may kill and of who may kill is not. Cosmopolitan theorists  for their part  do not address the ethical issues raised by war in any depth. Fabres Cosmopolitan War seeks to fill this gap  and defends its account of just and unjust wars by addressing the ethics of different kinds of war: wars of national defence  wars over scarce resources  civil wars  humanitarian intervention  wars involving private military forces  and asymmetrical wars.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45666306949173,"sku":"ByrdShop_0198708572","price":47.52,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780198708575.jpg?v=1782427852","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/cosmopolitan-war-9780198708575","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}