Ethics of War- Changing space of the battlefield- Anonymous Killings and moral agency.
Christopher Coker is Professor of International relations at the London School of Economics. In 2008 he published his book- ‘ ethics and war in the twenty first century’. This book provides a very original and important narrative towards asking questions such as- why do states go to war? Who are the threats against states? And how in the liberalisation of society, states collectively justify their actions, and provide moral agency? The biggest point which I have discovered through reading ethics and war in the twenty first century, is the ways in which technological advancements have perpetuated anonymous killings, on the battle field, which within its own structures has changed and to attempt to explore the statement that since the rise of industrialisation and technology, the battlespace has changed, and thus decreased moral agency and increased anonymous killings. This blog aims to explore the factors which have made this statement become true, and to explore the historical,