Ned Dobos (PhD) is Senior Lecturer in International and Political studies at UNSW Canberra. He is the author of two books--Ethics, Security, and the War Machine: the True Cost of the Military (Oxford University Press 2020), and Insurrection and Intervention (Cambridge University Press 2012)--and his research has appeared in journals such as Philosophical Studies, Ethics and International Affairs, Journal of Applied Philosophy, Journal of Moral Philosophy, and International Studies Quarterly. Dobos has held visiting appointments at the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics at Oxford, the MacMillan Centre for International Studies at Yale, the McCoy Centre for Ethics at Stanford, and the philosophy department at Georgetown University. Currently he is Associate Director of the International Society for Military Ethics (Asia-Pacific chapter), a co-editor at the Australian Journal of Human Rights (Taylor and Francis), and associate editor of the Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence (Brill).
Books
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Dobos N, 2020, Ethics, Security, and the War Machine The True Cost of the Military, Oxford University Press, USA
2020
Coady CAJ; Dobos N; Sanyal S, 2018, Challenges for humanitarian intervention: Ethical demand and political reality, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198812852.001.0001
2018
Dr D, 2011, Insurrection and Intervention: The Two Faces of Sovereignty, First, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge UK
2011
Preprints
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Dobos N, Are States under a Prospective Duty to Create and Maintain Militaries?, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4241399
Dobos N, Military Abolitionism: A Critical Typology, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4241390
Book Chapters
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Dobos N, 2018, 'On the Uses and 'Abuses' of Responsibility to Protect', in Challenges for Humanitarian Intervention: Ethical Demand and Political Reality, Oxford University Press, Oxford UK, pp. 123 - 138, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198812852.003.0007
2018
Dobos N, 2015, 'Humanitarian Intervention', in baker D (ed.), Key Concepts in Military Ethics, pp. 122 - 127
2015
Dobos N, 2015, 'Rebellion', in baker D (ed.), Key Concepts in Military Ethics, pp. 117 - 121
2015
Dobos N, 2015, 'Pacifism', in Baker D (ed.), Key Concepts in Military Ethics, UNSW Press, pp. 96 - 101
2015
2015, 'Shareholder Rights and Zero-Sum CSR: Strategies for Reconciliation', in CSR, Sustainability, Ethics and Governance, Springer International Publishing, pp. 255 - 267, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10909-1_13
2015
Dobos N, 2015, 'Moral Trauma and Moral Degradation', in Moral Injury Unseen Wounds in an Age of Barbarism, University of New South Wales Press, pp. 126 - 134, https://www.newsouthbooks.com.au/books/unseen-wounds/
2015
Dobos N, 2015, 'Realism', in Baker D (ed.), Key Concepts in Military Ethics, UNSW Press, pp. 102 - 106
2015
Dobos N, 2015, 'Shareholder Rights and Zero-Sum CSR: Strategies for Reconciliation', in Idowu SO; Frederiksen CS; Mermod AY; Nielsen MEJ (ed.), Corporate Social Responsibility and Governance, edn. CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance, Springer, pp. 255 - 267, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10909-1
2015
Dobos N; Coady CAJ, 2014, 'All or Nothing: Are There Any 'Merely Permissible' Humanitarian Interventions?', in The Ethics of Armed Humanitarian Intervention, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge UK, pp. 78 - 94, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139567589.008
2014
Dobos N, 2013, 'Endangering Soldiers and the Problem of Private Military Contractors', in Allhoff F; Evans NG; Henschke A (ed.), Routledge Handbook of Ethics and War: Just War Theory in the 21st Century, edn. 1, Routledge, New York, pp. 265 - 272, http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415539340/
2013
Dobos N, 2012, 'Political Obligation', in Pritchard D (ed.), Oxford Bibliographies Online: Philosophy, edn. 1st, Oxford Univerrsity Press, New York, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/obo/9780195396577-0078
2012
2011, 'Introduction', in Dobos N; Barry C; Pogge T (ed.), Global Financial Crisis: the Ethical Issues, Palgrave MacMillan, Houndsmills, Basingstoke, pp. 1 - 23, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315710044
2011
Dr D, 2011, 'U nacionalnom interesu: moral i politicki realizam', in Primorac I (ed.), Politika I Moral, edn. First, Kruzak, Zagreb Croatia, pp. 249 - 265
2011
Dr D, 2011, 'Neoliberalism - Is This the End?', in Dobos N; Barry C; Pogge T (ed.), Global Financial Crisis: the Ethical Issues, edn. 1, Palgrave MacMillan, Houndsmills, Basingstoke, pp. 63 - 81, http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=414639
2011
Dr D, 2007, 'Political Obligation', in Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, edn. Original, pp. N/A - online publication - N/A - online publication, http://www.iep.utm.edu/
2007
Conference Papers
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Dr D, 2011, 'Reconciling CSR and Shareholder Primacy: An Alternative Approach', in Reconciling CSR and Shareholder Primacy: An Alternative Approach, St John's University, New York, USA, presented at Sustainability: The Legacy of Business Ethics. The 18th Annual International Conference Promoting Business Ethics, St John's University, New York, 26 October 2011 - 28 October 2011
2011
Conference Presentations
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Dr D, 2012, 'Is Unilateral Intervention Always Unethical?', presented at Second Doshisha-UNESCO International Conference on Humanitarian Intervention, Doshisha University, Kyoto Japan, 25 June 2012 - 26 June 2012, http://gdoshisha.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/ned-dobos-paper.pdf
2012
Journal articles
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Dobos N, 2023, 'Pharmacological Prophylaxes against Moral Injury', Monash Bioethics Review, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40592-022-00167-3
2023
2022, 'Are strikes extortionate?', Philosophical Studies, 179, pp. 245 - 264, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11098-021-01658-5
2022
Dobos N, 2022, 'Military Abolitionism: A Critical Typology', International Studies Quarterly, vol. 66, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/isq/sqac018
2022
2021, 'Are States under a Prospective Duty to Create and Maintain Militaries?', Ethics and International Affairs, 35, pp. 407 - 419, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0892679421000393
2021
Dobos N, 2019, 'War as a Workplace: Ethical Implications of the Occupational Shift', Journal of Military Ethics, vol. 18, pp. 248 - 260, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15027570.2019.1689613
2019
2018, 'Exploitation, Working Poverty, and the Expressive Power of Wages', Journal of Applied Philosophy, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/japp.12314
2018
Dobos N, 2017, 'What’s So Deviant about Production Deviance?', Social Theory and Practice, 43, pp. 519 - 540, http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/soctheorpract20178112
2017
2016, 'Idealism, Realism, and Success in Armed Humanitarian Intervention', Philosophia, online first, pp. 1 - 11, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11406-016-9704-0
2016
Balint P; Dobos N, 2015, 'Perpetuating the Military Myth - Why the Psychology of the 2014 Australian Defence Pay Deal Is Irrelevant', Australian Journal of Public Administration, vol. 74, pp. 359 - 363, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-8500.12161
2015
2015, 'The Duty to Hire on Merit: Mapping the Terrain', Journal of Value Inquiry, Online First, September 2015, pp. 1 - 16, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10790-015-9516-7
2015
Dobos N, 2015, 'Anna Goppel: Killing Terrorists: A Legal and Moral Analysis', ETHICAL THEORY AND MORAL PRACTICE, vol. 18, pp. 671 - 672, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10677-015-9570-z
2015
2015, 'Networking, Corruption, and Subversion', Journal of Business Ethics, Online First, September 2015, pp. 467 - 478, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10551-015-2853-4
2015
2015, 'Punishing Non-Conscientious Disobedience: Is the Military a Rogue Employer?', Philosophical Forum, 46, pp. 105 - 119, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/phil.12058
2015
Dobos N, 2014, 'Advert-Evaluation and Product-Appraisal: A Two Way Street?', Business and Professional Ethics Journal, vol. 33, pp. 17 - 30, http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/bpej20144227
2014
Dr D, 2012, 'The Democratization of Credit', Journal of Social Philosophy, 43, pp. 50 - 63, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9833.2012.01547.x
2012
2012, 'International Rescue and Mediated Consequences', Ethics and International Affairs, 26, pp. 335 - 353, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0892679412000457
2012
Dr D, 2011, 'Non-Libertarianism and Shareholder Theory: A Reply to Schaefer', Journal of Business Ethics, vol. 98, pp. 273 - 279, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10551-010-0547-5
2011
Dr D, 2011, 'Consistency in the Armed Enforcement of Human Rights: A Moral Necessity?', Journal of Moral Philosophy, vol. 8, pp. 92 - 109, http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/174552411X549408
2011
Dr D, 2010, 'Is U.N. Security Council Authorisation for Armed Humanitarian Intervention Morally Necessary?', Philosophia, 38, pp. 415 - 499, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11406-009-9233-1
2010
Dr D, 2010, 'On Altruistic War and National Responsibility: Justifying Humanitarian Intervention to Soldiers and Taxpayers', Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 13, pp. 19 - 31, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10677-009-9167-5
2010
Dr D, 2008, 'Rebellion, Humanitarian Intervention, and the Prudential Constraints on War', Journal of Military Ethics: normative aspects of the use of military force, 7, pp. 102 - 115, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15027570701565714
2008
Dr D, 2007, 'Democratic Authorization and Civilian Immunity', Philosophical Forum, 38, pp. 81 - 88, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9191.2007.00254.x
2007
Dr D, 2007, 'The Re-Emerging Medieval Interventionism', Antithesis, vol. 17, pp. 51 - 64, http://antithesisjournal.wordpress.com/
2007
* The ethics of war and political violence
* Humanitarian intervention
* Pacifism, non-violence, and "post military" defence systems
* Professional Ethics
* Employment and workplace relations