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Media type:
E-Book
Title:
Violence and Peace
:
From the Atomic Bomb to Ethnic Cleansing
Contains:
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
Description:
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