War and the Politics of Ethics
Contemporary Western war is represented as enacting the West's ability and responsibility to help make the world a better place for others, in particular to protect them from oppression and serious human rights abuses. That is, war has become permissible again, indeed even required, as ethical war. At the same time, however, Western war kills and destroys. This creates a paradox: Western war risks killing those it proposes to protect.This book examines how we have responded to this dilemma and challenges the vision of ethical war itself, exploring how the commitment to ethics shapes the practice of war and indeed how practices come, in turn,…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-19-253541-2
- EAN: 9780192535412
- Produktnummer: 25747147
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 248 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 643 KB
Über den Autor
Maja Zehfuss is Professor of International Politics at The University of Manchester. She is the author of Constructivism in International Relations: The Politics of Reality (Cambridge University Press, 2002) and Wounds of Memory: Politics of War in Germany (Cambridge University Press, 2007). She is also the co-editor, with Jenny Edkins, of Global Politics: A New Introduction (Routledge, 2008, 2013).
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