War in international thought / Jens Bartelson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bartelson, Jens, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

War and society--History.

War and society.

History.

War (Philosophy).

Strategic culture.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

x, 241 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Summary:

"This is a book about the meaning of war in international thought from the early seventeenth to the late nineteenth century. Such a topic lends itself to many approaches, with many possible results. One rather conventional way to approach this topic would be to investigate how the concept of war has been used by different authors in different historical contexts, and for what kind of ideological and political purposes. From such an inquiry we would hopefully be able to make inferences about the changing functions of the concept of war across time and space, and from these perhaps distill more general insights about the meaning of war in international thought" -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Preface

Towards a historical ontology of war

The state of war

Fortifying the state

Wars of law, laws of war

Conclusion: the return of the repressed?

Bibliography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781108410496

1108410499

9781108419352

1108419356

OCLC:

992784225