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Ethics and Cyber Warfare: The Quest for Responsible Security in the Age of Digital Warfare
George Lucas
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Description for Ethics and Cyber Warfare: The Quest for Responsible Security in the Age of Digital Warfare
Hardback. "State sponsored hacktivism" constitutes a wholly new alternative to conventional armed conflict. This book explores the ethical and legal dimensions of this "soft" mode warfare grounded in a broad revisionist approach to military ethics and "just war theory" that results in a new code of ethics for today's "cyber warriors." Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; HPS; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 166 x 248 x 20. Weight in Grams: 424.
In this work, an internationally-respected authority in military ethics describes a wholly new kind of cyber conflict that has utterly confounded the predictions of earlier experts in information warfare. Comparing this state-sponsored hacktivism to the transformative impact of irregular warfare in conventional armed conflict, Lucas offers a critique of legal approaches to governance, and outlines a new approach to ethics and just war reasoning (grounded in the political philosophies of Alasdair MacIntyre, John Rawls, and Jurgen Habermas) that provides both a framework for understanding these newly-emerging norms of practice for cyber conflict, and ... Read more
In this work, an internationally-respected authority in military ethics describes a wholly new kind of cyber conflict that has utterly confounded the predictions of earlier experts in information warfare. Comparing this state-sponsored hacktivism to the transformative impact of irregular warfare in conventional armed conflict, Lucas offers a critique of legal approaches to governance, and outlines a new approach to ethics and just war reasoning (grounded in the political philosophies of Alasdair MacIntyre, John Rawls, and Jurgen Habermas) that provides both a framework for understanding these newly-emerging norms of practice for cyber conflict, and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
424g
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780190276522
SKU
V9780190276522
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About George Lucas
George Lucas is currently a Visiting Distinguished Research Professor at the John J. Reilly Center for Science, Technology & Values at Notre Dame University. He is an internationally recognized authority in the field of military and applied ethics, focusing in particular upon ethics and emerging military technologies. Recent books include Anthropologists in Arms (2009) and Military Ethics: What Everyone ... Read more
Reviews for Ethics and Cyber Warfare: The Quest for Responsible Security in the Age of Digital Warfare
Lucas proposes a foundation on which future ethics can be developed. Citing a variety of well-known authorities, he makes a convincing case for relying on incrementalism and experience...Summing Up: Essential. All readership levels.
J. A. Stever, CHOICE
J. A. Stever, CHOICE