What is war for?:

"How does armed conflict shape global politics? When states wage war on their neighbours while denying its existence, what chance do we have to regulate it, and how will we ever achieve a more peaceful world? This book examines how changes to social rules - such as interpretations of internatio...

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Main Author: McDonald, Jack (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Bristol Bristol University Press 2023
Series:What is it for?
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Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
Summary:"How does armed conflict shape global politics? When states wage war on their neighbours while denying its existence, what chance do we have to regulate it, and how will we ever achieve a more peaceful world? This book examines how changes to social rules - such as interpretations of international law - reshape how states explain their military actions, and changes to technology and society transform the activities that constitute contemporary warfare. Analysing the role that war serves in global politics, it outlines the multiple ways that war affects the contemporary world, from international relations to our day-to-day lives. Focusing on two competing visions of war - that war can and should be eliminated, and that war is a permanent problem to be managed - it takes the second path as a necessary step towards the first, in the maybe vain hope that it is ever achievable"--Publisher's description
Physical Description:XIII, 157 Seiten 21 cm
ISBN:9781529228380

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