The new order of war / edited by Bob Brecher.

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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.

Preliminary Material -- Questioning Just War Thinking: A Critique of Walzer / Tarik Kochi -- Torture and the 'Ticking Bomb': Fantasy and the So-Called War on Terror / Bob Brecher -- The Language of War: George W. Bush's Discursive Practices in Securitising the Western Value System in the 'War on Terror' / Janicke Stramer -- Is the War on Terror Real? Should it Be? / Avery Plaw -- 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 / Arjen Vermeer -- Yugonostalgia and the Post-National Narrative / Stephenie Young -- Veterans, Vietcong and Others: Enemies and Empathies In Larry Heinemann's Paco's Story / David Boulting -- The Immediacy of Narrated Combat: Operation Iraqi Freedom as Public Spectacle / Jason T. McEntee -- Ethical Crossings in War Writing: Michael Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost and the Sri Lankan Civil War / Elke Rosochacki -- The Unlisted Character: Representing War on Stage / Julia Boll -- Confessing Complicity and Embracing Victimhood: Negotiating the Meaning of the Border War in Post-Apartheid South Africa / Gary Baines -- A Psychosocial Perspective on Support for Terrorism in the Wake of Attacks / Kiran Sarma -- Non-Lethal Warfare / Seth B. Scott -- Teaching Non-Violence / Helen Fox -- Notes on Contributors.

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