Terrorism and the Ethics of War Book

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction 1

Part I Terrorism: What's in a Name? 9

1 The problem of defining terrorism 11

2 Defining terrorism 24

3 What makes terrorism wrong? 30

4 Innocence and discrimination 40

5 "Who dun it" definitions of terrorism 59

Conclusion: taking stock 73

Part II Why Moral Condemnations of Terrorism Lack Credibility 75

Introduction: toward morally credible condemnations of terrorism 77

6 Why standard theories fail to condemn terrorism 79

7 Just war theory and the problem of collateral damage 94

Conclusion: categorical vs. conditional criticisms of terrorism 104

Part III Defending Noncombatant Immunity 107

Introduction: the ethics of war-fighting: a spectrum of possible views 109

8 The realist challenge to the ethics of war 114

9 An ethic of war for reasonable realists 125

10 Walzer on noncombatant immunity as a human right 133

11 The supreme emergency exception 146

12 Rights theories, utilitarianism, and the killing of civilians 160

13 Immunity rights vs. the right of self-defense 175

14 A rule-utilitarian defense of noncombatant immunity 191

15 Why utilitarian criticisms of noncombatant immunity are mistaken 212

16 Is noncombatant immunity a "mere" convention? 229

Part IV How Much Immunity should Noncombatants Have? 247

Introduction: the problem of collateral damage 249

17 The problem of collateral damage killings 251

18 The ethics of collateral damage killings 269

Conclusion: terrorism and the ethics of war 288

Bibliography 303

Index 314