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Violence and Peace : From the Atomic Bomb to Ethnic Cleansing / Pierre Hassner.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, [1997]Copyright date: ©1997Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9789633865484
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 327.1/01 23/eng/20220816
LOC classification:
  • JZ1242 .H37 2022
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART ONE: VIOLENCE AND RATIONALITY -- 1 Beyond the Three Traditions: The Philosophy of War and Peace in Historical Perspective -- 2 Force and Politics Today -- 3 Violence, Rationality and Unpredictability: Apocalyptic and Pacific Tendencies in Studies of International Conflict -- PART TWO: NUCLEAR DETERRENCE -- 4 The Nation-State in the Nuclear Age -- 5 Ethical Issues in Nuclear Deterrence: Four National Debates in Perspective (France, Great Britain, the United States and West Germany) -- PART THREE: TOTALITARIANISM -- 6 Communist Totalitarianism: The Transatlantic Vagaries of a Concept -- 7 An Elusive but Essential Notion -- PART FOUR: NATIONALISM -- 8 Nationalism and International Relations -- 9 Cultural Identity and Civil Society: The New Nationalist Challenge -- PART FIVE: TENSIONS -- 10 Beyond Nationalism and Internationalism: Monstrosity and Hope -- 11 Towards a Pluralist Universalism? -- CONCLUSION -- 12 War and Peace in the Twentieth Century -- Notes -- Index
Summary: Building a bridge between political philosophy and the analysis of current affairs, as well as between the author's personal experience and the collective dramas of the twentieth century, Pierre Hassner stresses two major features of our time: the decline of interstate war as a realistic prospect, and the increase in domestic and transnational violence.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART ONE: VIOLENCE AND RATIONALITY -- 1 Beyond the Three Traditions: The Philosophy of War and Peace in Historical Perspective -- 2 Force and Politics Today -- 3 Violence, Rationality and Unpredictability: Apocalyptic and Pacific Tendencies in Studies of International Conflict -- PART TWO: NUCLEAR DETERRENCE -- 4 The Nation-State in the Nuclear Age -- 5 Ethical Issues in Nuclear Deterrence: Four National Debates in Perspective (France, Great Britain, the United States and West Germany) -- PART THREE: TOTALITARIANISM -- 6 Communist Totalitarianism: The Transatlantic Vagaries of a Concept -- 7 An Elusive but Essential Notion -- PART FOUR: NATIONALISM -- 8 Nationalism and International Relations -- 9 Cultural Identity and Civil Society: The New Nationalist Challenge -- PART FIVE: TENSIONS -- 10 Beyond Nationalism and Internationalism: Monstrosity and Hope -- 11 Towards a Pluralist Universalism? -- CONCLUSION -- 12 War and Peace in the Twentieth Century -- Notes -- Index

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Building a bridge between political philosophy and the analysis of current affairs, as well as between the author's personal experience and the collective dramas of the twentieth century, Pierre Hassner stresses two major features of our time: the decline of interstate war as a realistic prospect, and the increase in domestic and transnational violence.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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