Title Outsourcing war : the just war tradition in the age of military privatization / Amy E. Eckert.

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Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2016.

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Description	1 online resource
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	The just war tradition and the new market for private force -- The state system and the evolution of the just war tradition -- Jus ad bellum principles and privatized war -- Privatization and the normative challenge to jus in bello rules -- The ethics of war, the market for private force, and the public/private divide.
Summary	Recent decades have seen an increasing reliance on private military contractors (PMCs) to provide logistical services, training, maintenance, and combat troops. This book examines the ethical implications involved in the widespread use of PMCs, and in particular questions whether they can fit within customary ways of understanding the ethical prosecution of warfare.
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Subject	Private military companies -- Moral and ethical aspects.
	Private military companies.
	Private security services -- Moral and ethical aspects.
	Private security services.
	Mercenary troops -- Moral and ethical aspects.
	Mercenary troops.
	Just war doctrine.
	Just war doctrine.
	Military ethics.
	Military ethics.
	War -- Moral and ethical aspects.
	War -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Eckert, Amy. Outsourcing war 9780801454202 (DLC) 2015036019 (OCoLC)921821855
ISBN	9781501703577 (electronic book)
	1501703579 (electronic book)
	9780801454202
	0801454204

Title Outsourcing war : the just war tradition in the age of military privatization / Amy E. Eckert.

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