Brianna Rosen has published a new article in the Journal of Applied Philosophy, exploring a fundamental question in the ethics of war: who has the legitimate authority to authorise the use of force?
Challenging the assumption that legitimate authority belongs exclusively to states, the article proposes three necessary conditions for such authority: identifiable and knowable leadership, the competence to make informed judgements about war, and the institutional capacity to coordinate collective action.
Read the full open-access article here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/japp.70142
