Violence and Peace : : From the Atomic Bomb to Ethnic Cleansing / / Pierre Hassner.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Central European University Press eBook-Package 2013-1998
• VerfasserIn: Hassner, Pierre,
• Place / Publishing House: Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [1997]; ©1997
• Year of Publication: 1997
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; PART ONE: VIOLENCE AND RATIONALITY --; 1 Beyond the Three Traditions: The Philosophy of War and Peace in Historical Perspective --; 2 Force and Politics Today --; 3 Violence, Rationality and Unpredictability: Apocalyptic and Pacific Tendencies in Studies of International Conflict --; PART TWO: NUCLEAR DETERRENCE --; 4 The Nation-State in the Nuclear Age --; 5 Ethical Issues in Nuclear Deterrence: Four National Debates in Perspective (France, Great Britain, the United States and West Germany) --; PART THREE: TOTALITARIANISM --; 6 Communist Totalitarianism: The Transatlantic Vagaries of a Concept --; 7 An Elusive but Essential Notion --; PART FOUR: NATIONALISM --; 8 Nationalism and International Relations --; 9 Cultural Identity and Civil Society: The New Nationalist Challenge --; PART FIVE: TENSIONS --; 10 Beyond Nationalism and Internationalism: Monstrosity and Hope --; 11 Towards a Pluralist Universalism? --; CONCLUSION --; 12 War and Peace in the Twentieth Century --; Notes --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9789633865484; 9783110780550
• DOI: 10.1515/9789633865484
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Pierre Hassner.

Building a bridge between political philosophy and the analysis of current affairs, as well as between the author's personal experience and the collective dramas of the twentieth century, Pierre Hassner stresses two major features of our time: the decline of interstate war as a realistic prospect, and the increase in domestic and transnational violence.