The new order of war / / edited by Bob Brecher.

• Superior document: At the interface/probing the boundaries ; 64
• Author: Brecher, Bob.
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam ;, New York : : Rodopi,, 2010.
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries 64.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (vii, 258 pages).
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Other title: Preliminary Material --; Questioning Just War Thinking: A Critique of Walzer /; Torture and the ‘Ticking Bomb’: Fantasy and the So-Called War on Terror /; The Language of War: George W. Bush’s Discursive Practices in Securitising the Western Value System in the ‘War on Terror’ /; Is the War on Terror Real? Should it Be? /; 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 /; Yugonostalgia and the Post-National Narrative /; Veterans, Vietcong and Others: Enemies and Empathies In Larry Heinemann’s Paco’s Story /; The Immediacy of Narrated Combat: Operation Iraqi Freedom as Public Spectacle /; Ethical Crossings in War Writing: Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost and the Sri Lankan Civil War /; The Unlisted Character: Representing War on Stage /; Confessing Complicity and Embracing Victimhood: Negotiating the Meaning of the Border War in Post-Apartheid South Africa /; A Psychosocial Perspective on Support for Terrorism in the Wake of Attacks /; Non-Lethal Warfare /; Teaching Non-Violence /; Notes on Contributors.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references.
• ISBN: 9042029420
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Bob Brecher.

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.