Daedalus 145:04 (Fall 2016): Ethics, Technology & War

by Michael Walzer, Michael C. Horowitz, David P. Fidler

Drawing on some of the nation's foremost scholars in the arts, sciences, humanities, and social sciences, Dædalus, the Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, presents new perspectives and multidisciplinary research on topics central to American life. Ethics, Technology & War Scott D. Sagan Just & Unjust Targeted Killing & Drone Warfare Michael Walzer The Ethics & Morality of Robotic Assessing the Debate over Autonomous Weapons Michael C. Horowitz Just & Unjust War, Uses of Force & An Ethical Inquiry with Cyber Illustrations David P. Fidler Nuclear Weapons & Nuclear Use C. Robert Kehler The Nuclear Necessity Making U.S. Targeting Policy Conform with Ethics & the Laws of War Jeffrey G. Lewis & Scott D. Sagan The Responsibility to Protect after Libya & Syria Jennifer M. Welsh New Technology for Peace & Expanding the R2P Toolbox Lloyd Axworthy & A. Walter Dorn The Path to Last The Role of Early Warning & Early Action Jennifer Leaning From Armed Conflict to Political Mapping & Explaining Conflict Trends Keith Krause Moral Character or Character of War? American Public Opinion on the Targeting of Civilians in Times of War Benjamin Valentino

207 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 22, 2016

About the author

Michael Walzer is a Jewish American political philosopher and public intellectual. A professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, he is editor of the political-intellectual quarterly Dissent. He has written books and essays on a wide range of topics, including just and unjust wars, nationalism, ethnicity, economic justice, social criticism, radicalism, tolerance, and political obligation and is a contributing editor to The New Republic. To date, he has written 27 books and published over 300 articles, essays, and book reviews in Dissent, The New Republic, The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, The New York Times, and many scholarly journals