Teaching and learning methods
In Ethics of War, student learning is facilitated through a combination of weekly lectures, weekly seminars, fortnightly sessions for consolidating learning, and independent study. The module’s learning activities and assessment tasks are designed to foster critical thinking, evidence-based argument, intellectual autonomy, civility, self-discipline, and moral courage.
Study time
| Type |
Hours |
| Teaching |
24 |
| Independent Study |
126 |
| Total study time |
150 |
Resources & Reading list
General Resources
Background textbooks.
Alex J. Bellamy, Just Wars: From Cicero to Iraq, Cambridge: Polity Press, 2006.
Ian Clark, Waging War: A Philosophical Introduction, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990.
C. A. J. Coady, Morality and Political Violence, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Jean Bethke Elshtain, Just War Against Terror: The Burden of American Power in a Violent
World, New York: Basic Books, 2003.
Christian Enemark, Armed Drones and the Ethics of War: Military Virtue in a Post-Heroic Age, London: Routledge, 2014.
David Fisher, Morality and War: Can War be Just in the Twenty-First Century?, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.
Colin S. Gray, ‘Moral Advantage, Strategic Advantage?’, Journal of Strategic Studies 33, no. 3 (2010): 333-65.
Steven P. Lee, Ethics and War: An Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Brian Orend, The Morality of War, Peterborough: Broadview, 2006.
Brian Rappert, Non-Lethal Weapons as Legitimizing Forces? Technology, Politics and the Management of Conflict, London: Frank Cass, 2003.
Torbjörn Tännsjö, Understanding Ethics: An Introduction to Moral Theory, 2nd ed., Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2008.
Michael Walzer, Just and Unjust Wars: a Moral Argument with Historical Illustrations, 4th ed., New York: Basic Books, 2006.
