A philosophical exploration of the moral issues raised by the use of private military contractors and mercenaries in war.

This book offers a comprehensive moral theory of privatization in war. It examines the kind of wars that private actors might wage separate from the state and t

This book assesses the use of ‘mercenaries’ by states, and their integration into the national armed forces as part of a new hybridisation trend of contempo

Discussing cutting-edge debates in the field of international ethics, this key volume builds on existing work in the normative study of international relations.

This book offers a detailed utilitarian analysis of the ethical issues involved in war. Utilitarianism and the Ethics of War addresses the two basic ethical que