David B Rubin
Biographic Data
| ID | 6881821 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David B Rubin |
| GIVEN NAMES | David B |
| FAMILY NAME | Rubin |
| SIGNATURE | RUBIN D B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7053-5156 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
High, Dry and Allied
This article adopts a normative approach to one of the most consequential issues of alliance management: the question of if and when an ally is justified in breaching its collective defence duty (CDD). An ally’s CDD constitutes its formal obligation to militarily defend its ally in the event that the latter experiences an armed attack. Drawing on both normative political theory and contemporary International Relations scholarship on alliance cred…
Transcending Two Percent
This article argues that NATO's current burden-sharing regime, which I term the proportional model of NATO burden-sharing and which obligates each NATO member to allocate at least 2 percent of its GDP to defence, is deeply flawed from a purely ethical standpoint. This is because the proportional model omits from its approach to distributing the burdens of collective defence two morally relevant ally-level characteristics: namely, individual level…
System Structure, Unjust War, and State Excusability
This article seeks to bridge the interdisciplinary gap between just war theory (JWT) and international relations (IR) by introducing into the former discipline key theoretical and empirical insights from the latter discipline. Specifically, the article argues that traditional JWT is deficient as a normative account of war because it constitutes what Kenneth Waltz calls a “unit-level” theory, operating at the level of the individual state and eval…
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System Structure, Unjust War, and State Excusability
This article seeks to bridge the interdisciplinary gap between just war theory (JWT) and international relations (IR) by introducing into the former discipline key theoretical and empirical insights from the latter discipline. Specifically, the article argues that traditional JWT is deficient as a normative account of war because it constitutes what Kenneth Waltz calls a “unit-level” theory, operating at the level of the individual state and eval…
Transcending Two Percent
This article argues that NATO's current burden-sharing regime, which I term the proportional model of NATO burden-sharing and which obligates each NATO member to allocate at least 2 percent of its GDP to defence, is deeply flawed from a purely ethical standpoint. This is because the proportional model omits from its approach to distributing the burdens of collective defence two morally relevant ally-level characteristics: namely, individual level…
High, Dry and Allied
This article adopts a normative approach to one of the most consequential issues of alliance management: the question of if and when an ally is justified in breaching its collective defence duty (CDD). An ally’s CDD constitutes its formal obligation to militarily defend its ally in the event that the latter experiences an armed attack. Drawing on both normative political theory and contemporary International Relations scholarship on alliance cred…
War, Ethics, and Justification (3 works) · Alliance (2 works) · Global Peace and Security Dynamics (2 works) · Law and economics (2 works) · Normative (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Anomie (1 work) · Collective action (1 work) · Credibility (1 work) · Cybersecurity and Cyber Warfare Studies (1 work)