War and Virtual War : : The Challenges to Communities /

War and Virtual War : : The Challenges to Communities / / edited by Jones Irwin.

If the practice of war is as old as human history, so too is the need to reflect upon war, to understand its meaning and implications. The Pre-Socratic philosopher Heraclitus asserted in 600BC that War ( polemos ) is justice, thus inaugurating a long philosophical tradition of consideration of the m...

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Superior document:At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries ; 13
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Irwin, Jones,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2004.
Year of Publication:2004
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries ; 13.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Understanding War and Terrorism
  • Paul GILBERT: Roles and Identities in Old and New Wars
  • Susan G. SAMPLE: The Impact of Ideational Interests on State Behaviour and the Outcome of Militarised Disputes
  • Paul REXTON KAN: Globalisation and the Just War Tradition: The Vexing Problem of Legitimate Authority
  • Bradd C. HAYES and Thomas P.M. BARNETT: System Perturbation: Conflict in the Age of Globalization
  • Maura CONWAY: Cyberterrorism: Media Myth or Clear and Present Danger?
  • Part II: War and Morality
  • Michael L. GROSS: Assassination: Killing in the Shadow of Self-Defence
  • Asa KASHER: Civil Disobedience and Military Ethics
  • Part III: Representations of War
  • Deborah A. GÓMEZ: The Exclusion of American Nurses from the Imagery of Liberation
  • Martin BAYER: Playing War in Computer Games: Images, Myths and Reality
  • Christopher MACALLISTER: Contemporary British Cinema and the Re-imagining of World War Two: A Virtual/Humane Sensibility to War and a 'New' Grammar of Heroism
  • Jones IRWIN: The 'Problem' (Not the 'Theorem') of War: On Pasolini's Salò
  • Part IV. Whither Peace?
  • Edward HORGAN: Peace and Virtual Peace: Challenges to War
  • Agata DZIEWULSKA: Cross-Track Approach: A Remedy to Post-Conflict Peace Building?
  • Notes on Contributors.

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