What Is War For?
by Jack McDonald
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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.
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- Publisher Bristol University Press
- Publication Date March 2023
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9781529228380
- Publication Country or regionUnited Kingdom
- FormatPaperback
- Primary Price 8.99 GBP
- Pages160
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusUnpublished
- Copyright Year2023
- Dimensions178x108 mm
- SeriesWhat’s it for?
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