The new order of war / edited by Bob Brecher.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brecher, Bob.

Series:

At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries 64.

At the interface/probing the boundaries ; 64

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

War (Philosophy).

War in literature.

War--Moral and ethical aspects.

War.

Politics and war.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 258 pages).

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Far from heralding 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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

90-420-2942-0

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789042029422 DOI