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- ISBN 9781626165069
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 10 Jan 2018
- Publisher: Georgetown University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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How do we frame decisions to use or abstain from military force? Who should do the killing? Do we need new paradigms to guide the use of force? And what does "victory" mean in contemporary conflict? In many ways, these are timeless questions. But they should be revisited in light of changing circumstances in the twenty-first century. The post-Cold War, post-9/11 world is one of contested and fragmented sovereignty: contested because the norm of territorial integrity has shed some of its absolute nature, fragmented because some states do not control all of their territory and cannot defeat violent groups operating within their borders. Humanitarian intervention, preventive war, and just war are all framing mechanisms aimed at convincing domestic and international audiences to go to war-or not), as well as to decide who is justified in legally and ethically killing. The international group of scholars assembled in this book critically examine these frameworks to ask if they are flawed, and if so, how they can be improved. Finally, the volume contemplates what all the killing and dying is for if victory ultimately proves elusive.
Daniel R. Brunstetter is associate professor of political science at the University of California-Irvine and author of Tensions of Modernity: Las Casas and His Legacy in the French Enlightenment. Jean-Vincent Holeindre is professor of political science at University of Poitiers and Scientific Director of Institut de Recherche Strategique de l'Ecole Militaire (IRSEM). He is the author of La ruse et la force: Une autre histoire de la strategie.
