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Book SynopsisFar from heralding a time of unprecedented peace, the end of “actually existing communism” served to usher in new conflicts, new wars and new reasons for war. That much goes without saying. What is controversial, however, is how we might understand and respond to these new wars. This book offers a new approach. Its distinctive and multidisciplinary range of perspectives, offering quite different views, is based on the conviction that if we are to begin to get to grips with this central feature of our 21st Century lives, we have to go beyond an unhelpful moralism on the one hand and a defeatist appeal to “human nature” on the other.
Table of ContentsBob Brecher: Introduction: The New Order of War Tarik Kochi: Questioning Just War Thinking: A Critique of Walzer Bob Brecher: Torture and the ‘Ticking Bomb’: Fantasy and the So-Called War on Terror Janicke Stramer: The Language of War: George W. Bush’s Discursive Practices in Securitising the Western Value System in the ‘War on Terror’ Avery Plaw: Is the War on Terror Real? Should it Be? Arjen Vermeer: The Laws of War in Outer Space: Some Legal Implications for Jus ad Bellum and Jus in Bello of the Militarisation and Weaponisation of Outer Space Stephenie Young: Yugonostalgia and the Post-National Narrative David Boulting: Veterans, Vietcong and Others: Enemies and Empathies In Larry Heinemann’s Paco’s Story Jason T. McEntee: The Immediacy of Narrated Combat: Operation Iraqi Freedom as Public Spectacle Elke Rosochaki: Ethical Crossings in War Writing: Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost and the Sri Lankan Civil War Julia Boll: The Unlisted Character: Representing War on Stage Gary Baines: Confessing Complicity and Embracing Victimhood: Negotiating the Meaning of the Border War in Post-Apartheid South Africa Kiran Sarma: A Psychosocial Perspective on Support for Terrorism in the Wake of Attacks Seth B. Scott: Non-Lethal Warfare Helen Fox: Teaching Non-Violence Notes on Contributors
