Terrorism and the Right to Resist: A Theory of Just Revolutionary War
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| Anteprima |
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words 'rebellion' and 'revolution' have gained renewed prominence in
the vocabulary of world politics and so has the question of justifiable
armed 'resistance'. In this book Christopher J. Finlay extends just war
theory to provide a rigorous and systematic account of the right to
resist oppression and of the forms of armed force it can justify. He
specifies the circumstances in which rebels have the right to claim
recognition as legitimate actors in revolutionary wars against domestic
tyranny and injustice and wars of liberation against wrongful foreign
occupation and colonialism. Arguing that violence is permissible only in
a narrow range of cases, Finlay shows that the rules of engagement vary
during and between different conflicts and explores the potential for
irregular tactics to become justifiable, such as non-uniformed
guerrillas and civilian disguise, the assassination of political leaders
and regime officials, and the waging of terrorist war against civilian
targets.
