Cian O’driscoll
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 376521 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Cian O’driscoll |
| PRENOMES | Cian |
| SOBRENOME | O’driscoll |
| ASSINATURA | O’DRISCOLL C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University College Cork |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1427-2747 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2011 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Dressed to kill
What do the costumes that soldiers wear have to do with the ethics of war? This article tackles this question. It argues that military uniforms operate as a site and source of ethics of war discourse, reproducing codes of conduct as the dress code. It advances an account of the uniform as a material interface where the ethics shows itself in aesthetic form, and vice versa. It elaborates this position via a case study of the 2018 decision of the A…
Navigating change
Amid the growing enthusiasm to use land-use and transport policy measures to encourage greater sustainable travel, the need to understand the nuance of where such interventions are effective, how they work, and who they impact is essential. Yet, the relative importance of who we are and where we live in shaping travel behaviours remains contested. This paper examines this relationship more closely by studying the relative importance of built envi…
History, ethics, and war
This article takes as its starting point the contention that thinking ethically about war requires thinking historically about ethics. Such a contention, we suggest, requires us to have a clear sense of what thinking historically entails. Yet this can assume very different forms. Taking the question of the moral equality of combatants as a focal point for analysis, we examine three ways of engaging history in the task of thinking ethically about …
Assessing modal tradeoffs and associated built environment characteristics using a cost-distance framework
The relationship between the built environment and transportation mode choice is well-studied, but less attention has been spent on the way that urban environments influence the relative travel costs for different modes. This paper uses a ‘cost-distance’ framework to assess the tradeoffs between transportation modes for commuters in the Dublin metropolitan area and employs random forest models to investigate non-linearities in the relationships b…
Measuring land-use mixing across the Republic of Ireland
Historical patterns of land-use development across many countries in the Global North have generally been characterised by land-use segregation, low-density settlements, and limited transport accessibility. This can lead to inefficient regional developmental patterns and can increase the environmental degradation attributable to regional expansion. Numerous metrics and datasets have been employed to infer the sustainability and efficiency of thes…
Land-use mixing in Irish cities
Land-use configurations are explicitly related to the outcomes of numerous economic, social, and environmental policies. From a regional development perspective, efficiency in the use of natural resources, such as space, can positively contribute to sustainability efforts in these realms. This Viewpoint measures the efficiency of land and infrastructure usage within Irish metropolitan areas using relative entropy (i.e., land-use mixing). We find …
How the relationship between socio-demographics, residential environments and travel influence commuter choices
Individual socio-demographic characteristics influence the composition of residential environments, employment considerations and transport-dedicated resources, all of which influence individual travel behaviours. To analyse these interrelationships, we employ generalised structural equation modelling using individual-level data from the 2016 Irish Census on workers across the Republic of Ireland alongside highly spatially disaggregated residenti…
Retail sprawl and CO2 emissions
The concept of sustainable retail development implies that retail centres should serve their communities economically and socially, while not degrading local environments. However, existing literature identifies that retail centres often create negative externalities, impacting the sustainable development of both the core and peripheries of city regions. International evidence also shows that retail sprawl and transport emissions have been exacer…
Who is afraid of Tim O'Brien? The existential truth of just war theory
Can war ever be justified? And what, if any, limits should bear on the waging of war? These questions are the stock-in-trade of scholars of just war theory. Hailing from a wide variety of academic disciplines, scholars of just war theory have historically been inclusive when it comes to the kinds of texts that they consider legitimate source-material. Legal treatises, biblical commentaries, political speeches, and military codeshave all been embr…
The laws of war in international thought
I have argued previously that historical approaches to thinking ethically about war are in danger of eating their own tail. The concern, as I stated it, is that historical excavations of the just war tradition are turning in ever tighter, more esoteric circles that shed only diminished light on the issue at hand—the rights and wrongs of war. Pablo Kalmanovitz's The laws of war in international thought makes a mockery of these worries. It offers a…
How and Why to Do Just War Theory
America and the Just War Tradition
This is a book that anyone interested in the just war tradition should read. It challenges scholars to respond to the ethical dilemmas that arise in the course of war, not simply by interpolating them via scholastic debate, but by situating them in the historical stream of international relations. The editors of this volume, Mark David Hall and J. Daryl Charles, achieve this effect by collating twelve essays that draw upon the just war tradition …
No substitute for victory? Why just war theorists can’t win
Victory has historically been regarded as the ‘ telos’ or ‘very object’ of war. As one well-placed commentator has noted, war is all about winning. It is baffling to note, then, that contemporary just war theory, the predominant framework for addressing the moral and legal questions that war raises, makes no allowance for victory. Today’s just war theorists shun the language of victory, preferring instead to speak about the ‘endings’ of warfare. …
Nobody wins the victory taboo in just war theory
This article examines how scholars of the just war tradition think about the ethical dilemmas that arise in the endgame phase of modern warfare. In particular, it focuses upon their reticence to engage the idiom of ‘victory’. Why, it asks, have scholars been so reluctant to talk about what it means to ‘win’ a just war? It contends that, while just war scholars may have good reason to be sceptical about ‘victory’, engaging it would grant them a mo…
How I learned tostartworrying and love the just war tradition
This article engages with the critique of just war that lies at the heart of Maja Zehfuss’s War & the Politics of Ethics. It argues that while Zehfuss’s critique misses the mark in several important respects, it nevertheless does us a tremendous service by laying bare the irony of just war. In doing so, it reminds us not only of the limits and dangers of just war thinking, but also of why it deserves our grudging respect
Just War Thinkers
Collateral Damage
Though few would deny it, and we are all aware of it on some deeper level, it is disturbingly easy to forget the brutish quality of modern warfare. This is closely bound up with how we talk about w
At all costs and in spite of all terror? The victory of just war
Derived from the Latin Victoria , which itself can be traced to vino victus , meaning ‘to conquer’, victory evokes a number of close synonyms, principally conquest and triumph. It occupies an ambivalent position in respect of contemporary war. Though in some regards a concept that is essential to the very idea of combat, the notion of winning wars has acquired an ironic ring in the aftermath of two brutal world wars and the advent of nuclear weap…
Rewriting the Just War Tradition
The just war tradition is the predominant western framework for thinking about the ethics of contemporary war. Political and military leaders frequently invoke its venerable lineage to lend ballast to their arguments for or against particular wars. How we understand the history of just war matters, then, for it subtends how that discourse is deployed today. Conventional accounts of the just war trace its origins to the writings of Saint Augustine…
A ‘fighting chance’ or fighting dirty? Irregular warfare, Michael Gross and the Spartans
Among the most vexed moral issues in contemporary conflict is the matter of whether irregular forces waging wars of national liberation should be expected to abide by the same jus in bello rules as state actors, even though these rules may prejudice their cause. Is it, in other words, reasonable to demand that irregular forces, including guerrilla groups and national liberation movements, should comport themselves like state armies, even in cases…
Talking about Just War
Boasting origins in the Roman Empire, the just war tradition furnishes us with a set of principles for addressing the moral-legal questions that war raises. Recently, the just war was the subject of controversy following President Obama's very public ruminations on the subject in the course of his 2010 Nobel Peace Prize address. Many popular commentators seemed to assume that Obama's ‘turn’ towards the just war marked something new. This article …
Rewriting the Just War Tradition
The just war tradition is the predominant western framework for thinking about the ethics of contemporary war. Political and military leaders frequently invoke its venerable lineage to lend ballast to their arguments for or against particular wars. How we understand the history of just war matters, then, for it subtends how that discourse is deployed today. Conventional accounts of the just war trace its origins to the writings of Saint Augustine…
Talking about Just War
Boasting origins in the Roman Empire, the just war tradition furnishes us with a set of principles for addressing the moral-legal questions that war raises. Recently, the just war was the subject of controversy following President Obama's very public ruminations on the subject in the course of his 2010 Nobel Peace Prize address. Many popular commentators seemed to assume that Obama's ‘turn’ towards the just war marked something new. This article …
At all costs and in spite of all terror? The victory of just war
Derived from the Latin Victoria , which itself can be traced to vino victus , meaning ‘to conquer’, victory evokes a number of close synonyms, principally conquest and triumph. It occupies an ambivalent position in respect of contemporary war. Though in some regards a concept that is essential to the very idea of combat, the notion of winning wars has acquired an ironic ring in the aftermath of two brutal world wars and the advent of nuclear weap…
Land-use mixing in Irish cities
Land-use configurations are explicitly related to the outcomes of numerous economic, social, and environmental policies. From a regional development perspective, efficiency in the use of natural resources, such as space, can positively contribute to sustainability efforts in these realms. This Viewpoint measures the efficiency of land and infrastructure usage within Irish metropolitan areas using relative entropy (i.e., land-use mixing). We find …
How and Why to Do Just War Theory
No substitute for victory? Why just war theorists can’t win
Victory has historically been regarded as the ‘ telos’ or ‘very object’ of war. As one well-placed commentator has noted, war is all about winning. It is baffling to note, then, that contemporary just war theory, the predominant framework for addressing the moral and legal questions that war raises, makes no allowance for victory. Today’s just war theorists shun the language of victory, preferring instead to speak about the ‘endings’ of warfare. …
Assessing modal tradeoffs and associated built environment characteristics using a cost-distance framework
The relationship between the built environment and transportation mode choice is well-studied, but less attention has been spent on the way that urban environments influence the relative travel costs for different modes. This paper uses a ‘cost-distance’ framework to assess the tradeoffs between transportation modes for commuters in the Dublin metropolitan area and employs random forest models to investigate non-linearities in the relationships b…
How the relationship between socio-demographics, residential environments and travel influence commuter choices
Individual socio-demographic characteristics influence the composition of residential environments, employment considerations and transport-dedicated resources, all of which influence individual travel behaviours. To analyse these interrelationships, we employ generalised structural equation modelling using individual-level data from the 2016 Irish Census on workers across the Republic of Ireland alongside highly spatially disaggregated residenti…
How I learned tostartworrying and love the just war tradition
This article engages with the critique of just war that lies at the heart of Maja Zehfuss’s War & the Politics of Ethics. It argues that while Zehfuss’s critique misses the mark in several important respects, it nevertheless does us a tremendous service by laying bare the irony of just war. In doing so, it reminds us not only of the limits and dangers of just war thinking, but also of why it deserves our grudging respect
A ‘fighting chance’ or fighting dirty? Irregular warfare, Michael Gross and the Spartans
Among the most vexed moral issues in contemporary conflict is the matter of whether irregular forces waging wars of national liberation should be expected to abide by the same jus in bello rules as state actors, even though these rules may prejudice their cause. Is it, in other words, reasonable to demand that irregular forces, including guerrilla groups and national liberation movements, should comport themselves like state armies, even in cases…
A ‘fighting chance’ or fighting dirty? Irregular warfare, Michael Gross and the Spartans
Among the most vexed moral issues in contemporary conflict is the matter of whether irregular forces waging wars of national liberation should be expected to abide by the same jus in bello rules as state actors, even though these rules may prejudice their cause. Is it, in other words, reasonable to demand that irregular forces, including guerrilla groups and national liberation movements, should comport themselves like state armies, even in cases…
Talking about Just War
Boasting origins in the Roman Empire, the just war tradition furnishes us with a set of principles for addressing the moral-legal questions that war raises. Recently, the just war was the subject of controversy following President Obama's very public ruminations on the subject in the course of his 2010 Nobel Peace Prize address. Many popular commentators seemed to assume that Obama's ‘turn’ towards the just war marked something new. This article …
At all costs and in spite of all terror? The victory of just war
Derived from the Latin Victoria , which itself can be traced to vino victus , meaning ‘to conquer’, victory evokes a number of close synonyms, principally conquest and triumph. It occupies an ambivalent position in respect of contemporary war. Though in some regards a concept that is essential to the very idea of combat, the notion of winning wars has acquired an ironic ring in the aftermath of two brutal world wars and the advent of nuclear weap…
Rewriting the Just War Tradition
The just war tradition is the predominant western framework for thinking about the ethics of contemporary war. Political and military leaders frequently invoke its venerable lineage to lend ballast to their arguments for or against particular wars. How we understand the history of just war matters, then, for it subtends how that discourse is deployed today. Conventional accounts of the just war trace its origins to the writings of Saint Augustine…
Just War Thinkers
Collateral Damage
Though few would deny it, and we are all aware of it on some deeper level, it is disturbingly easy to forget the brutish quality of modern warfare. This is closely bound up with how we talk about w
Nobody wins the victory taboo in just war theory
This article examines how scholars of the just war tradition think about the ethical dilemmas that arise in the endgame phase of modern warfare. In particular, it focuses upon their reticence to engage the idiom of ‘victory’. Why, it asks, have scholars been so reluctant to talk about what it means to ‘win’ a just war? It contends that, while just war scholars may have good reason to be sceptical about ‘victory’, engaging it would grant them a mo…
How I learned tostartworrying and love the just war tradition
This article engages with the critique of just war that lies at the heart of Maja Zehfuss’s War & the Politics of Ethics. It argues that while Zehfuss’s critique misses the mark in several important respects, it nevertheless does us a tremendous service by laying bare the irony of just war. In doing so, it reminds us not only of the limits and dangers of just war thinking, but also of why it deserves our grudging respect
America and the Just War Tradition
This is a book that anyone interested in the just war tradition should read. It challenges scholars to respond to the ethical dilemmas that arise in the course of war, not simply by interpolating them via scholastic debate, but by situating them in the historical stream of international relations. The editors of this volume, Mark David Hall and J. Daryl Charles, achieve this effect by collating twelve essays that draw upon the just war tradition …
No substitute for victory? Why just war theorists can’t win
Victory has historically been regarded as the ‘ telos’ or ‘very object’ of war. As one well-placed commentator has noted, war is all about winning. It is baffling to note, then, that contemporary just war theory, the predominant framework for addressing the moral and legal questions that war raises, makes no allowance for victory. Today’s just war theorists shun the language of victory, preferring instead to speak about the ‘endings’ of warfare. …
The laws of war in international thought
I have argued previously that historical approaches to thinking ethically about war are in danger of eating their own tail. The concern, as I stated it, is that historical excavations of the just war tradition are turning in ever tighter, more esoteric circles that shed only diminished light on the issue at hand—the rights and wrongs of war. Pablo Kalmanovitz's The laws of war in international thought makes a mockery of these worries. It offers a…
How and Why to Do Just War Theory
Retail sprawl and CO2 emissions
The concept of sustainable retail development implies that retail centres should serve their communities economically and socially, while not degrading local environments. However, existing literature identifies that retail centres often create negative externalities, impacting the sustainable development of both the core and peripheries of city regions. International evidence also shows that retail sprawl and transport emissions have been exacer…
Who is afraid of Tim O'Brien? The existential truth of just war theory
Can war ever be justified? And what, if any, limits should bear on the waging of war? These questions are the stock-in-trade of scholars of just war theory. Hailing from a wide variety of academic disciplines, scholars of just war theory have historically been inclusive when it comes to the kinds of texts that they consider legitimate source-material. Legal treatises, biblical commentaries, political speeches, and military codeshave all been embr…
Measuring land-use mixing across the Republic of Ireland
Historical patterns of land-use development across many countries in the Global North have generally been characterised by land-use segregation, low-density settlements, and limited transport accessibility. This can lead to inefficient regional developmental patterns and can increase the environmental degradation attributable to regional expansion. Numerous metrics and datasets have been employed to infer the sustainability and efficiency of thes…
Land-use mixing in Irish cities
Land-use configurations are explicitly related to the outcomes of numerous economic, social, and environmental policies. From a regional development perspective, efficiency in the use of natural resources, such as space, can positively contribute to sustainability efforts in these realms. This Viewpoint measures the efficiency of land and infrastructure usage within Irish metropolitan areas using relative entropy (i.e., land-use mixing). We find …
How the relationship between socio-demographics, residential environments and travel influence commuter choices
Individual socio-demographic characteristics influence the composition of residential environments, employment considerations and transport-dedicated resources, all of which influence individual travel behaviours. To analyse these interrelationships, we employ generalised structural equation modelling using individual-level data from the 2016 Irish Census on workers across the Republic of Ireland alongside highly spatially disaggregated residenti…
Assessing modal tradeoffs and associated built environment characteristics using a cost-distance framework
The relationship between the built environment and transportation mode choice is well-studied, but less attention has been spent on the way that urban environments influence the relative travel costs for different modes. This paper uses a ‘cost-distance’ framework to assess the tradeoffs between transportation modes for commuters in the Dublin metropolitan area and employs random forest models to investigate non-linearities in the relationships b…
Navigating change
Amid the growing enthusiasm to use land-use and transport policy measures to encourage greater sustainable travel, the need to understand the nuance of where such interventions are effective, how they work, and who they impact is essential. Yet, the relative importance of who we are and where we live in shaping travel behaviours remains contested. This paper examines this relationship more closely by studying the relative importance of built envi…
History, ethics, and war
This article takes as its starting point the contention that thinking ethically about war requires thinking historically about ethics. Such a contention, we suggest, requires us to have a clear sense of what thinking historically entails. Yet this can assume very different forms. Taking the question of the moral equality of combatants as a focal point for analysis, we examine three ways of engaging history in the task of thinking ethically about …
Dressed to kill
What do the costumes that soldiers wear have to do with the ethics of war? This article tackles this question. It argues that military uniforms operate as a site and source of ethics of war discourse, reproducing codes of conduct as the dress code. It advances an account of the uniform as a material interface where the ethics shows itself in aesthetic form, and vice versa. It elaborates this position via a case study of the 2018 decision of the A…
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