Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-jkksz Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-27T06:30:41.831Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Jus ad Vim: A Rejoinder to Helen Frowe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2016

Daniel Brunstetter
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Image of the first page of this content. For PDF version, please use the ‘Save PDF’ preceeding this image.'
Type
Response
Information
Ethics & International Affairs , Volume 30 , Issue 1 , Spring 2016 , pp. 131 - 136
Copyright
Copyright © Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs 2016 

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

NOTES

1 The views expressed here are my own and not necessarily those of my co-author of the original piece (Megan Braun), who has since pursued a career in law. Some of these ideas were discussed at the Fifth Annual ELAC Workshop on War at Oxford University. I especially thank Heather Roff Perkins, Janina Dill, James Pattison, and Henry Shue for their constructive comments.

2 See the now classic text, Jeff McMahan, Killing in War (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009).

3 Henry Shue, “Do We Need a ‘Morality of War’?” in David Rodin and Henry Shue, eds., Just and Unjust Warriors: The Moral and Legal Status of Soldiers (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008), pp. 87–111; Chris Brown, “Just War and Political Judgment,” in Anthony F. Lang, Cian O'Driscoll, and John Williams, eds., Just War: Authority, Tradition, and Practice (Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2013), pp. 25–48; for an alternative view, see Bradley J. Strawser, “Revisionist Just War Theory and the Real World: A Cautiously Optimistic Proposal,” in Fritz Allhoff, Nicholas G. Evans, and Adam Henschke, eds., Routledge Handbook of Ethics and War: Just War Theory in the Twenty-First Century (Abingdon: Routledge, 2013), pp. 76–89.

4 Michael Walzer, Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument with Historical Illustrations (New York: Basic Books, 2006), pp. 51–52.

5 Brunstetter, Daniel and Jiménez-Bacardi, Arturo, “Clashing over Drones: The Legal and Normative Gap between the United States and the Human Rights Community,” International Journal of Human Rights 19, no. 2 (2015), pp. 176–98CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

6 Ian Clarke, Waging War: A New Philosophical Introduction (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015), pp. 129–30.

7 Brunstetter, Daniel and Braun, Megan, “From Jus ad Bellum to Jus ad Vim: Recalibrating Our Understanding of the Moral Use of Force,” Ethics & International Affairs 27, no. 1 (2013), pp. 87–106 CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

8 My thanks to Chris Brown for insight on this point.

9 Brunstetter, Daniel and Braun, Megan, “Rethinking the Criterion for Assessing CIA-Targeted Killings: Drones, Proportionality and Jus Ad Vim ,” Journal of Military Ethics 12, no. 4 (2013), pp. 304–24Google Scholar; p. 319.

10 Brunstetter and Jiménez-Bacardi, “Clashing over Drones.”

11 My subsequent research develops a standard of last resort ad vim for preventive drone strikes that combines elements of traditionalist just war thinking (the permissive right of a state to kill members of a terrorist group as one can kill enemy soldiers under the laws of war) and law enforcement (the right to due process and restrictive collateral damage policy inherent in the law enforcement paradigm). See John Emery and Daniel Brunstetter, “Restricting the Preventive Use of Force: Drones, the Struggle against Non-State Actors, and Jus ad Vim,” in Kerstin Fisk and Jennifer Ramos, eds., Preventive Force: Drones, Targeted Killing, and the Transformation of Contemporary Warfare (New York: NYU Press, forthcoming 2016).

12 Brunstetter and Braun, “Rethinking the Criterion for Assessing CIA-Targeted Killings.”