David L. Perry

Partly Cloudy

Ethics in War, Espionage, Covert Action, and Interrogation

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Exploring ethical issues and challenges faced by military and intelligence personnel, this new edition includes critical issues such as torturing detainees, using espionage to penetrate terrorist cells, mounting covert actions to undermine hostile regimes, practicing euthanasia as mercy-killing, or using targeted killings to fight insurgencies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Second Edition
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 424g
• ISBN-13: 9781442262034
• ISBN-10: 1442262036
• Artikelnr.: 45187977

Autorenporträt

David L. Perry taught ethics for 24 years at several institutions of higher education, including the U.S. Army War College, Davidson and Dickinson colleges, and Seattle and Santa Clara universities. He now lives on Bainbridge Island near Seattle.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: An Introduction to Ethical Reasoning
Chapter 2: Comparative Religious Perspectives on War
Chapter 3: Just and Unjust War in Shakespeare's Henry V
Chapter 4: Anticipating and Preventing Atrocities in War
Chapter 5: Battlefield Euthanasia: Should Military Mercy-Killings Be
Allowed?
Chapter 6: Secret Intelligence and American Democracy
Chapter 7: The KGB: CIA's Traditional Adversary
Chapter 8: Espionage
Chapter 9: Covert Action
Chapter 10: Targeted Killing
Chapter 11: Interrogation
Epilogue: On Peacemaking
About the Author
Index