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Dr Ned Dobos

Dr Ned Dobos

Senior Lecturer
UNSW Canberra
School of Humanities & Social Sciences

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). 
Phone
+61 2 5114 5071
E-mail
n.dobos@adfa.edu.au
Location
Building 28 Room 204
  • Books | 2020
    Dobos N, 2020, Ethics, Security, and the War Machine The True Cost of the Military, Oxford University Press, USA
    Books | 2018
    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
    Books | 2011
    Dr D, 2011, Insurrection and Intervention: The Two Faces of Sovereignty, First, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge UK
  • Book Chapters | 2018
    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
    Book Chapters | 2015
    Dobos N, 2015, 'Humanitarian Intervention', in baker D (ed.), Key Concepts in Military Ethics, pp. 122 - 127
    Book Chapters | 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/
    Book Chapters | 2015
    Dobos N, 2015, 'Pacifism', in Baker D (ed.), Key Concepts in Military Ethics, UNSW Press, pp. 96 - 101
    Book Chapters | 2015
    Dobos N, 2015, 'Realism', in Baker D (ed.), Key Concepts in Military Ethics, UNSW Press, pp. 102 - 106
    Book Chapters | 2015
    Dobos N, 2015, 'Rebellion', in baker D (ed.), Key Concepts in Military Ethics, pp. 117 - 121
    Book Chapters | 2015
    Dobos N, 2015, 'Shareholder Rights and Zero-Sum CSR: Strategies for Reconciliation', in CSR, Sustainability, Ethics and Governance, pp. 255 - 267, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10909-1_13
    Book Chapters | 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, Springer, pp. 255 - 267, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10909-1
    Book Chapters | 2014
    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://www.cambridge.org/au/academic/subjects/philosophy/political-philosophy/ethics-armed-humanitarian-intervention
    Book Chapters | 2013
    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, Routledge, New York, pp. 265 - 272, http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415539340/
    Book Chapters | 2012
    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
    Book Chapters | 2011
    Dr D, 2011, 'Introduction', in Dobos N; Barry C; Pogge T (ed.), Global Financial Crisis: the Ethical Issues, Palgrave MacMillan, Houndsmills, Basingstoke, pp. 1 - 23, http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=414639
    Book Chapters | 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
    Book Chapters | 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
    Book Chapters | 2007
    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/
  • Journal articles | 2023
    Dobos N, 2023, 'Pharmacological Prophylaxes against Moral Injury', Monash Bioethics Review, 41, pp. 37 - 48, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40592-022-00167-3
    Journal articles | 2023
    Liivoja R; Dobos N, 2023, 'Ethical issues in military bioscience', Monash Bioethics Review, 41, pp. 1 - 5, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40592-023-00176-w
    Journal articles | 2022
    Dobos N, 2022, 'Are strikes extortionate?', Philosophical Studies, 179, pp. 245 - 264, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11098-021-01658-5
    Journal articles | 2022
    Dobos N, 2022, 'Military Abolitionism: A Critical Typology', International Studies Quarterly, 66, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/isq/sqac018
    Journal articles | 2021
    Dobos N, 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
    Journal articles | 2019
    Dobos N, 2019, 'War as a Workplace: Ethical Implications of the Occupational Shift', Journal of Military Ethics, 18, pp. 248 - 260, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15027570.2019.1689613
    Journal articles | 2018
    Dobos N, 2018, 'Exploitation, Working Poverty, and the Expressive Power of Wages', Journal of Applied Philosophy, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/japp.12314
    Journal articles | 2017
    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
    Journal articles | 2016
    Dobos N, 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
    Journal articles | 2015
    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, 74, pp. 359 - 363, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-8500.12161
    Journal articles | 2015
    Dobos N, 2015, 'Anna Goppel: Killing Terrorists: A Legal and Moral Analysis', ETHICAL THEORY AND MORAL PRACTICE, 18, pp. 671 - 672, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10677-015-9570-z
    Journal articles | 2015
    Dobos N, 2015, 'Networking, Corruption, and Subversion', Journal of Business Ethics, Online First, September 2015, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10551-015-2853-4
    Journal articles | 2015
    Dobos N, 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
    Journal articles | 2015
    Dobos N, 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
    Journal articles | 2014
    Dobos N, 2014, 'Advert-Evaluation and Product-Appraisal: A Two Way Street?', Business and Professional Ethics Journal, 33, pp. 17 - 30, http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/bpej20144227
    Journal articles | 2012
    Dr D, 2012, 'International Rescue and Mediated Consequences', Ethics and International Affairs, 26, pp. 335 - 353, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0892679412000457
    Journal articles | 2012
    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
    Journal articles | 2011
    Dr D, 2011, 'Consistency in the Armed Enforcement of Human Rights: A Moral Necessity?', Journal of Moral Philosophy, 8, pp. 92 - 109, http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/174552411X549408
    Journal articles | 2011
    Dr D, 2011, 'Non-Libertarianism and Shareholder Theory: A Reply to Schaefer', Journal of Business Ethics, 98, pp. 273 - 279, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10551-010-0547-5
    Journal articles | 2010
    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
    Journal articles | 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
    Journal articles | 2008
    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
    Journal articles | 2007
    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
    Journal articles | 2007
    Dr D, 2007, 'The Re-Emerging Medieval Interventionism', Antithesis, 17, pp. 51 - 64, http://antithesisjournal.wordpress.com/
  • Conference Presentations | 2012
    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
    Conference Papers | 2011
    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
    Preprints |
    Dobos N, Are States under a Prospective Duty to Create and Maintain Militaries?, , http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4241399
    Preprints |
    Dobos N, Military Abolitionism: A Critical Typology, , http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4241390