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035 _a(DE-B1597)9781400873937
035 _a(DE-B1597)528072
035 _a(OCoLC)933297196
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aKutz, Christopher
_eautore
245 1 0 _aOn War and Democracy /
_cChristopher Kutz.
264 1 _aPrinceton, NJ :
_bPrinceton University Press,
_c[2016]
264 4 _c©2016
300 _a1 online resource (344 p.)
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
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_tAcknowledgments --
_t1. Introduction: War, Politics, Democracy --
_t2. Democratic Security --
_t3. Citizens and Soldiers: The Difference Uniforms Make --
_t4. A Modest Case for Symmetry: Are Soldiers Morally Equal? --
_t5. Leaders and the Gambles of War: Against Political Luck --
_t6. War, Democracy, and Publicity: The Persistence of Secret Law --
_t7. Must a Democracy Be Ruthless? Torture, Necessity, and Existential Politics --
_t8. Humanitarian Intervention and the New Democratic Holy Wars --
_t9. Democratic States in Victory: Vae Victis? --
_t10. Drones, Democracy, and the Future of War --
_t11. Democracy and the Death of Norms --
_t12. Looking Backward: Democratic Transitions and the Choice of Justice --
_tNotes --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aOn War and Democracy provides a richly nuanced examination of the moral justifications democracies often invoke to wage war. In this compelling and provocative book, Christopher Kutz argues that democratic principles can be both fertile and toxic ground for the project of limiting war's violence. Only by learning to view war as limited by our democratic values-rather than as a tool for promoting them-can we hope to arrest the slide toward the borderless, seemingly endless democratic "holy wars" and campaigns of remote killings we are witnessing today, and to stop permanently the use of torture and secret law.Kutz shows how our democratic values, understood incautiously and incorrectly, can actually undermine the goal of limiting war. He helps us better understand why we are tempted to believe that collective violence in the name of politics can be legitimate when individual violence is not. In doing so, he offers a bold new account of democratic agency that acknowledges the need for national defense and the promotion of liberty abroad while limiting the temptations of military intervention. Kutz demonstrates why we must address concerns about the means of waging war-including remote war and surveillance-and why we must create institutions to safeguard some nondemocratic values, such as dignity and martial honor, from the threat of democratic politics.On War and Democracy reveals why understanding democracy in terms of political agency, not institutional process, is crucial to limiting when and how democracies use violence.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)
650 0 _aAgent (Philosophy).
650 0 _aDemocracy
_xPhilosophy.
650 0 _aPolitics and war.
650 0 _aWar
_xMoral and ethical aspects.
650 7 _aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory.
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850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9781400873937?locatt=mode:legacy
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