UID:
almahu_9949703893602882
Format:
1 online resource (170 pages)
ISBN:
9789401205450
Series Statement:
At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 44
Content:
Rarely do academics and policymakers have the opportunity to sit down together and contemplate the broadest consequences of war. Our comprehension has traditionally been limited to war's causes, execution, promotion, opposition, and immediate political and economic ends and aftermath. But just as public health researchers are becoming aware of unexpected, subtle and powerful consequences of human economic action, we are beginning to realize that war has many short- and long-term consequences that we poorly understand but cannot afford to neglect. These papers contribute to a growing discourse among academics, scholars and lawmakers that is questioning and rethinking the nature and purpose of war. By studying the effects of war on communities we can more readily understand and anticipate the consequences of present and future conflicts. Such an understanding might well enable us to plan and execute military action with a more clearly defined set of post-war goals in mind. Whereas traditionally a government at war seeks the defeat of the adversary as its primary and often sole aim, through a clearer understanding of war's effects other aims will also become prominent. War, like surgery, could gradually become more refined, could minimize damage in ways that are currently unimaginable, and could involve an increasingly heavy responsibility to prepare for and facilitate reconstruction. Projects such as this volume are, of course, only the beginning. The more we understand the evolving nature of war, the better prepared we will be to protect communities from its harmful effects.
Note:
Preliminary Material --
,
"Train Yourselves to Defend Your Country": British Children's Novels in the First World War /
,
Through Comic Eyes: Punch, the British Army, and Pictorial Humour on the Western Front, 1914-1918 /
,
Budapest and the Great War: An Overview /
,
War Survivors' Fractured Identities in Hiroshima mon amour /
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Victims and Perpetrators: Memory and Reconciliation in Northern Ireland /
,
E-Jihad, Cyberterrorism and Freedom of Speech /
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The New Minutemen: Civil Society, the Military and Cyberspace /
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On the Similarities between Business and War /
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Inventing the General: A Re-appraisal of the Sunzi bingfa /
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Notes on Contributors /
Additional Edition:
Print version: War, virtual war and society. Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2008 ISBN 9789042023475
Language:
English
