Citizen Killings by Deane-Peter Baker

Citizen Killings by Deane-Peter Baker

Citizen Killings: Liberalism, State Policy and Moral Risk offers a ground breaking systematic approach to formulating ethical public policy on all forms of 'citizen killings’, which include killing in self-defence, abortion, infanticide, assisted suicide, euthanasia and killings carried out by private military contractors and so-called ‘foreign fighters’.

Where most approaches to these issues begin with the assumptions of some or other general approach to ethics, Deane-Peter Baker argues that life-or-death policy decisions of this kind should be driven first and foremost by a recognition of the key limitations that a commitment to political liberalism places on the state, particularly the requirement to respect citizens’ right to life and the principle of liberal neutrality. Where these principles come into tension Baker shows that they can in some cases be defused by way of a reasonableness test, and in other cases addressed through the application of what he calls the ‘risk of harm principle’. The book also explores the question of what measures citizens and other states might legitimately take in response to states that fail to implement morally appropriate policies regarding citizen killings.

Baker's work presents a real challenge…It's an important challenge for the rest of us, too… * Notre Dame Philosophical Review *

Deane-Peter Baker is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at UNSW Canberra, Australia. In addition to his role at UNSW Canberra Dr Baker holds the position of Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Johannesburg and is also a researcher in the Australian Centre for the Study of Armed Conflict and Society (ACSACS). He is the author Just Warriors, Inc. (2010) and co-editor of Private Military Companies: Ethics, Policies and Civil-Military Relations (2008).

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ISBN 13	9781472575432
ISBN 10	1472575431
Title	Citizen Killings
Author	Deane-Peter Baker
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Year published	2016-08-25
Number of pages	176
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