Cian O'Driscoll

Victory

The Triumph and Tragedy of Just War

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the way in which the concept of victory has been treated in just-war thinking, the predominant discourse in the western world for thinking about the rights and wrongs of war.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 150mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780198832911
• ISBN-10: 0198832915
• Artikelnr.: 57979178

Autorenporträt

Cian O'Driscoll is a Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Glasgow. Cian's principal area of research is the intersection between normative IR Theory and the history of political thought, with a particular focus on the ethics of war. His work has been published in leading journals in the field. His first monograph, The Renegotiation of the Just War Tradition (Palgrave), was published in 2008. Cian was the Principal Investigator on the ESRC grant-funded research project, Moral Victories: Ethics, Exit Strategies, and the Ending of Wars. Cian has also co-edited several volumes, including Moral Victories: The Ethics of Winning Wars (Oxford University Press, 2017), Just War Thinkers (London: 2017), and Just War: Authority, Tradition, Practice (Georgetown University Press: 2013). Cian is an ISRF Fellow and the Chair of International Ethics section of the International Studies Association.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: Beneath Every History, Another History
2: Making a Desert and Calling it Peace
3: The Smell of Napalm in the Morning
4: The Usual Definition of Just Wars
5: The Right of Conquest
6: Mission Accomplished
7: The Disease of Victory
Conclusion