TY - BOOK AU - Hassner,Pierre TI - Violence and Peace: From the Atomic Bomb to Ethnic Cleansing SN - 9789633865484 AV - JZ1242 .H37 2022 U1 - 327.1/01 23/eng/20220816 PY - 1997///] CY - Budapest, New York : PB - Central European University Press, KW - Deterrence (Strategy) KW - International relations KW - Nationalism KW - Politics and war KW - World politics KW - 1989- KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory KW - bisacsh KW - Communism, Fascism, Nationalism, Political studies, Political violence, Totalitarianism N1 - 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; restricted access N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9789633865484 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9789633865484 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9789633865484/original ER -