The new order of war / / 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 n...
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Superior document: | At the interface/probing the boundaries ; 64 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam ;, New York : : Rodopi,, 2010. |
Year of Publication: | 2010 |
Language: | English |
Series: | At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vii, 258 pages). |
Notes: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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505 | 0 | 0 | |t Preliminary Material -- |t Questioning Just War Thinking: A Critique of Walzer / |r Tarik Kochi -- |t Torture and the ‘Ticking Bomb’: Fantasy and the So-Called War on Terror / |r Bob Brecher -- |t The Language of War: George W. Bush’s Discursive Practices in Securitising the Western Value System in the ‘War on Terror’ / |r Janicke Stramer -- |t Is the War on Terror Real? Should it Be? / |r Avery Plaw -- |t 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 / |r Arjen Vermeer -- |t Yugonostalgia and the Post-National Narrative / |r Stephenie Young -- |t Veterans, Vietcong and Others: Enemies and Empathies In Larry Heinemann’s Paco’s Story / |r David Boulting -- |t The Immediacy of Narrated Combat: Operation Iraqi Freedom as Public Spectacle / |r Jason T. McEntee -- |t Ethical Crossings in War Writing: Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost and the Sri Lankan Civil War / |r Elke Rosochacki -- |t The Unlisted Character: Representing War on Stage / |r Julia Boll -- |t Confessing Complicity and Embracing Victimhood: Negotiating the Meaning of the Border War in Post-Apartheid South Africa / |r Gary Baines -- |t A Psychosocial Perspective on Support for Terrorism in the Wake of Attacks / |r Kiran Sarma -- |t Non-Lethal Warfare / |r Seth B. Scott -- |t Teaching Non-Violence / |r Helen Fox -- |t Notes on Contributors. |
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