The Lost Art of Declaring War
Historically, it has been assumed that war is violence and declarations of war are simply public announcements that serve to initiate combat. Brien Hallett denies both assumptions and claims that war is policy, not violence.The Lost Art of Declaring War analyzes the crucial differences between combat and war and convincingly argues that the power to declare war is in actuality the power to compose a text, draft a document, write a denunciation. Once written, the declaration then serves three functions: to articulate the political purposes of the war, to guide and direct military operations, and to establish the boundary between justified comb…
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- ISBN: 978-0-252-06726-6
- EAN: 9780252067266
- Produktnummer: 1488263
- Verlag: University of Illinois Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1998
- Seitenangabe: 208 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D0.0 cm 295 g
- Gewicht: 295
- Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational
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