Global challenges [electronic resource] : peace and war / edited by Yih-Jye Hwang and Lucie Cerna.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hwang, Yih-Jye.

Cerna, Lucie, 1981-

Series:

LUC texts in global challenges

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Peace.

Peace-building.

War.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (254 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Brill, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What is the idea of ‘peace’? Is peace merely the absence of war, or can it also mean something else? Is peace a condition of emancipation, the status quo, or is it a system of hegemonic stability? How can peace be acquired whatever it may mean? And above all, what is the relationship between peace and war? This textbook aims to offer a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to studies of peace and war, from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. Rather than providing students the answer of what the idea of peace means, this volume is designed to make and assist students to contemplate how peace can be thought by investigating its opposite: ‘war’, broadly defined.

Contents:

Peace in historical perspective: the birth of contemporary peace movements / Ann Marie Wilson

The causes of war / Niels van Willigen and Benjamin Pohl

Biology of war / Patsy Haccou

Just war theory / Laurens van Apeldoorn

Law of war / Yih-Jye Hwang and Lucie Cerna

The economics of war / William Hynes

The representation of war in literature, film and new media / Corina Stan

End of war / Niels van Willigen and Jessica Kroezen

The Yugoslav wars / Francesco Ragazzi

Iraq war / Edmund Frettingham

The Pacific war / Maja Vodopivec

War and peace in Colombia / Håvar Solheim and Eric Storm

Genocide, war and peace in Rwanda / Helen M. Hintjens

The Libyan civil war and the rise of the "responsibility to protect" / Sara Kendall.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

90-04-24693-2

OCLC:

853364903

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004246935 DOI