Justifying war propaganda, politics and the modern age
A new assessment of the debates about Just War in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, from the imperial wars of the nineteenth century through the age of total war, the evolution of human rights discourse and international law, to proportionality during the Cold War and the redefinition of aut...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London, UK
Palgrave Macmillan
2012
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| Summary: | A new assessment of the debates about Just War in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, from the imperial wars of the nineteenth century through the age of total war, the evolution of human rights discourse and international law, to proportionality during the Cold War and the redefinition of authority with the ascendancy of terror groups. |
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| Physical Description: | xv, 397 p. ill. 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index Part I : Empire, War and The Modern Age: Imperialism and Conflict in the Nineteenth Century -- Part II : The First World War: Conflict and Aftermath -- Part III : The Second World War: Justifying Global Conflict -- Part IV : Cold War: Justifying Ideologies -- Part V : Into the Modern Age: Justifying War in the Twenty-first Century |
| ISBN: | 9780230246270 |