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Understanding War (eBook, PDF)

An Essay on the Nuclear Age

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This clear and reflective book is based around two main ideas: that the destructiveness of war is a cumulative process; and that the superpowers must act together to prevent future nuclear destruction.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317858447
• Artikelnr.: 40831093

Autorenporträt

W. B. Gallie is Emeritus Professor of Political Science at the University of Cambridge. He has taught and written widely in philosophy, politics and the history of ideas - including military ideas - and saw over five years' military service in World War II.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Man as a war-making animal
Chapter 2 The underlying fallacy in the nuclear debate
Chapter 3 Our received idea of war
Chapter 4 War: an inherently cumulative process
Chapter 5 War and power
Chapter 6 The unlearnt lessons of the nuclear age
Chapter 7 War Studies, Peace Studies and Survival Studies