The new order of war /
The new order of war /
edited by Bob Brecher.
- Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2010.
- 1 online resource (xi, 258 pages).
- At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 64 .
- At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 64. .
Includes bibliographical references.
Preliminary Material -- Questioning Just War Thinking: A Critique of Walzer / Torture and the 'Ticking Bomb': Fantasy and the So-Called War on Terror / The Language of War: George W. Bush's Discursive Practices in Securitising the Western Value System in the 'War on Terror' / Is the War on Terror Real? Should it Be? / The Laws of War in Outer Space: Some Legal Implications for Jus ad Bellum and Jus in Bello of the Militarisation and Weaponisation of Outer Space / Yugonostalgia and the Post-National Narrative / Veterans, Vietcong and Others: Enemies and Empathies In Larry Heinemann's Paco's Story / The Immediacy of Narrated Combat: Operation Iraqi Freedom as Public Spectacle / Ethical Crossings in War Writing: Michael Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost and the Sri Lankan Civil War / The Unlisted Character: Representing War on Stage / Confessing Complicity and Embracing Victimhood: Negotiating the Meaning of the Border War in Post-Apartheid South Africa / A Psychosocial Perspective on Support for Terrorism in the Wake of Attacks / Non-Lethal Warfare / Teaching Non-Violence / Notes on Contributors. Tarik Kochi -- Bob Brecher -- Janicke Stramer -- Avery Plaw -- Arjen Vermeer -- Stephenie Young -- David Boulting -- Jason T. McEntee -- Elke Rosochacki -- Julia Boll -- Gary Baines -- Kiran Sarma -- Seth B. Scott -- Helen Fox --
Far from hearalding a time of unprecedented peace, the end of "actually existing communism" served to usher in new conflicts, new wars and new reasons for war. That much goes without saying. What is controversial, however; is how we might understand and respond to these new wars. This book offers a new approach. Its distinctive and multidisciplinary range of perspectives, offering quite different views. is based on the conviction that if we are to begin to get to grips with this central feature of our 21st Century lives, we have to go beyond an unhelpful moralism on the one hand and a defeatist appeal to "human nature" on the other. -- Bob Brecher is Director of the Centre for Applied Philosophy Politics & Ethics (CAPPE) at the University of Brighton, UK. He is author of Forture and The Ticking Bomb (Wiley 2007). Getting What You Want? (Roudedge 1997), editor of several volumes and has published numerous articles in moral and applied philosophy, liberalism and higher education. -- At the Interface/Probing the Boundaries seeks to encourage and promote cutting edge interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary projects and inquiry. By bringing people together from differing contexts, disciplines, professions, and vocations, the aim is to engage in conversations that are innovative, imaginative, and creatively interactive -- Inter-Disciplinary dialogue enables people to go beyond the boundaries of what they usually encounter and share in perspectives that are new, challenging, and richly rewarding. This kind of dialogue often illuminates one's own area of work, is suggestive of new possibilities for development, and creates exciting horizons for future conversations with persons from a wide variety of national and international settings -- By sharing cross-disciplinary insights and perspectives, ATI/PTB publications are designed to be both exploratory examinations of particular areas and issues, and rigorous inquiries into specific subjects. Books in the series are enabling resources which will encourage sustained and creative dialogue, and become the future resource for further inquiries and research --Book Jacket.
9789042029422 (electronic bk.) 9042029420 (electronic bk.)
War--Moral and ethical aspects.
War (Philosophy)
Politics and war.
Guerre--Aspect moral.
Guerre (Philosophie)
Politique et guerre.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--General.
Politics and war.
War--Moral and ethical aspects.
War (Philosophy)
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
U22 / .N49 2010eb
172/.42
Includes bibliographical references.
Preliminary Material -- Questioning Just War Thinking: A Critique of Walzer / Torture and the 'Ticking Bomb': Fantasy and the So-Called War on Terror / The Language of War: George W. Bush's Discursive Practices in Securitising the Western Value System in the 'War on Terror' / Is the War on Terror Real? Should it Be? / The Laws of War in Outer Space: Some Legal Implications for Jus ad Bellum and Jus in Bello of the Militarisation and Weaponisation of Outer Space / Yugonostalgia and the Post-National Narrative / Veterans, Vietcong and Others: Enemies and Empathies In Larry Heinemann's Paco's Story / The Immediacy of Narrated Combat: Operation Iraqi Freedom as Public Spectacle / Ethical Crossings in War Writing: Michael Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost and the Sri Lankan Civil War / The Unlisted Character: Representing War on Stage / Confessing Complicity and Embracing Victimhood: Negotiating the Meaning of the Border War in Post-Apartheid South Africa / A Psychosocial Perspective on Support for Terrorism in the Wake of Attacks / Non-Lethal Warfare / Teaching Non-Violence / Notes on Contributors. Tarik Kochi -- Bob Brecher -- Janicke Stramer -- Avery Plaw -- Arjen Vermeer -- Stephenie Young -- David Boulting -- Jason T. McEntee -- Elke Rosochacki -- Julia Boll -- Gary Baines -- Kiran Sarma -- Seth B. Scott -- Helen Fox --
Far from hearalding a time of unprecedented peace, the end of "actually existing communism" served to usher in new conflicts, new wars and new reasons for war. That much goes without saying. What is controversial, however; is how we might understand and respond to these new wars. This book offers a new approach. Its distinctive and multidisciplinary range of perspectives, offering quite different views. is based on the conviction that if we are to begin to get to grips with this central feature of our 21st Century lives, we have to go beyond an unhelpful moralism on the one hand and a defeatist appeal to "human nature" on the other. -- Bob Brecher is Director of the Centre for Applied Philosophy Politics & Ethics (CAPPE) at the University of Brighton, UK. He is author of Forture and The Ticking Bomb (Wiley 2007). Getting What You Want? (Roudedge 1997), editor of several volumes and has published numerous articles in moral and applied philosophy, liberalism and higher education. -- At the Interface/Probing the Boundaries seeks to encourage and promote cutting edge interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary projects and inquiry. By bringing people together from differing contexts, disciplines, professions, and vocations, the aim is to engage in conversations that are innovative, imaginative, and creatively interactive -- Inter-Disciplinary dialogue enables people to go beyond the boundaries of what they usually encounter and share in perspectives that are new, challenging, and richly rewarding. This kind of dialogue often illuminates one's own area of work, is suggestive of new possibilities for development, and creates exciting horizons for future conversations with persons from a wide variety of national and international settings -- By sharing cross-disciplinary insights and perspectives, ATI/PTB publications are designed to be both exploratory examinations of particular areas and issues, and rigorous inquiries into specific subjects. Books in the series are enabling resources which will encourage sustained and creative dialogue, and become the future resource for further inquiries and research --Book Jacket.
9789042029422 (electronic bk.) 9042029420 (electronic bk.)
War--Moral and ethical aspects.
War (Philosophy)
Politics and war.
Guerre--Aspect moral.
Guerre (Philosophie)
Politique et guerre.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--General.
Politics and war.
War--Moral and ethical aspects.
War (Philosophy)
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
U22 / .N49 2010eb
172/.42