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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452688003321

Autore

Pejcinovic Lacy

Titolo

War in international society / / Lacy Pejcinovic

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

0-203-55328-4

1-299-46951-5

1-135-62900-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (247 p.)

Collana

The new international relations

Disciplina

303.6/6

Soggetti

War and society - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; War, institutions and international actors; Identity, rights and necessity in justifications for war; Structure of the book; 1.The Theory of International Society and Institutions; The element of 'society' in international relations theory; Wight and Bull: the first generation; The new generations: international society after Wight and Bull; Institutions of international society; History and war as an institution; 2. Infidels, Barbarians, and Dominium

The nature of 'international society' in the late medieval periodMuslim infidels, dominium rights, and justifying war; Justifying war in the conquest of the new world; Conclusion; 3. Kings and Heretics in Late Medieval War; Theories of kingship and war; The great european divide: wars of religion and the construction of war as an institution; The corporeal metaphor and justifications for war; Conclusion; 4. Great Powers and War in the Nineteenth Century; International society in the age of revolutions; The Napoleonic wars, the peace of Europe and the institution of war

Slavery, identity and states' rights: the American Civil WarNecessity and the overseas manifestation of European rivalry; Conclusion; 5. Historical Time, Commerce,and Tutelage; The Enlightenment and non-European others; Commerce and tutelage as strategic and moral



necessity; The creation of British India; The Opium Wars; The Berlin West Africa conference and war; Conclusion; 6. Wars of Decolonisation; International society in the twentieth century; Decolonisation and the expansion of international society; France and Algeria; Portuguese decolonisation; Conclusion; 7. The Era of Total War

The world wars and war crimesThe Cold War and nuclear weapons; Conclusion; Conclusion; International society in the twenty-first century; Reflections on war in the twenty-first century; Is war still an institution?; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

"Is war an institution of international society and how is it constituted as such across the evolution of international society? This book is an inquiry into the purpose of war as a social institution, as originally put forward by Hedley Bull. It offers a comprehensive examination of what is entailed in thinking of war as a social institution and as a mechanism for order"--