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Author:   Bob Brecher
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Editions Rodopi B.V.
Volume:   64
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.426kg
ISBN:  

9789042029415

ISBN 10:   9042029412
Pages:   258
Publication Date:   01 January 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Bob 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

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Bob Brecher is Director of the Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics & Ethics (CAPPE) at the University of Brighton, UK. He is author of Torture and The Ticking Bomb (Wiley 2007), Getting What You Want? (Routledge 1997), editor of several volumes and has published numerous articles in moral and applied philosophy, liberalism and higher education.

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