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War on Terror : Reflecting on 20 Years of Policy, Actions, and Violence / ed. by Stipe Buzar, Jean-François Caron.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Facing Contemporary Terrorism ; 4Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2024]Copyright date: 2024Description: 1 online resource (V, 102 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783111320397
  • 9783111320496
  • 9783111320427
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 320
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- The Troublesome Ethics of Jus ad Vim -- Perfect Enemy and Forever War: The discourse of the Global War on Terrorism -- The Global War on Terror and the Rise of the Homo Superstes Conception of Life -- Innocence Denied: Twisting moral language from Cleon to bin Laden and Abu Ghraib -- Organizational Identity and Resilience in a Post-GWOT Profession of Arms -- List of contributors -- Index
Summary: Looking back at the "War on Terror" and its policies, actions, and the violence that followed, this book analyzes the resulting changes in international power structures and the relationship between citizens and their representatives. It defines our shortcomings in opposing this type of violence by demonstrating how the notion of legitimate violence has been broadened. The impact of the "War on Terror" on the public view of Liberalism is explored, as well as its effects on the role of state authorities in our lives. Thus, this book names the lessons we ought to learn from the actions taken against terrorist organizations.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9783111320427

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- The Troublesome Ethics of Jus ad Vim -- Perfect Enemy and Forever War: The discourse of the Global War on Terrorism -- The Global War on Terror and the Rise of the Homo Superstes Conception of Life -- Innocence Denied: Twisting moral language from Cleon to bin Laden and Abu Ghraib -- Organizational Identity and Resilience in a Post-GWOT Profession of Arms -- List of contributors -- Index

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Looking back at the "War on Terror" and its policies, actions, and the violence that followed, this book analyzes the resulting changes in international power structures and the relationship between citizens and their representatives. It defines our shortcomings in opposing this type of violence by demonstrating how the notion of legitimate violence has been broadened. The impact of the "War on Terror" on the public view of Liberalism is explored, as well as its effects on the role of state authorities in our lives. Thus, this book names the lessons we ought to learn from the actions taken against terrorist organizations.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Nov 2024)

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