| Beyond Security, Ethics and Violence: War Against the Other Contributor(s): Burke, Anthony (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415384648 ISBN-13: 9780415384643 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $152.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2006 Annotation: When security is grounded in exclusion and alienation, ethics give license to killing and war, and freedom is a mask for imperial violence, how should we act? br br i Security, Ethics & Violence /i sounds a warning; not only are global patterns of insecurity, violence and conflict getting ever more destructive and out of hand, but the ways we understand and respond to them will only prolong the crisis. In this book Anthony Burke critiques the fundamental categories of global political life, and then lights a path out. br br - Burke presents a ground-breaking analysis of the historical roots of sovereignty and security, his critique of just war theory, and offers important new essays on strategy, the concept of freedom and US exceptionalism. br br - This volume pursues searching critical engagements with thinkers such as Agamben, Hardt; Negri, Levinas, Clausewitz, Elshtain, Walzer, Foucault and Connolly. br br - Combining cutting-edge theoretical critique with analyses of the war on terror, Iraq, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the Vietnam war, the Indonesian crisis, globalization and the new drive for empire, this is a book that refuses easy answers, or to abandon hope. br br This new text will be of key interest to students and researchers of Politics and International Relations, Security Studies, Social and Cultural Theory and Philosophy. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Security (national & International) - Political Science | International Relations - General - Political Science | History & Theory - General |
| Dewey: 355.033 |
| LCCN: 2006017558 |
| Physical Information: 0.92" H x 6.53" W x 9.31" (1.27 lbs) 288 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In a world plagued by war and terror, Beyond Security, Ethics and Violence sounds a warning: not only are global patterns of insecurity, violence and conflict getting ever more destructive and out of hand, but the ways we understand and respond to them will only prolong the crisis. When security is grounded in exclusion and alienation, ethics licenses killing and war, and freedom is a mask for imperial violence, how should we act? Anthony Burke offers a groundbreaking analysis of the historical roots of sovereignty and security, his critique of just war theory, and important new essays on strategy, the concept of freedom and US exceptionalism. He pursues critical engagements with thinkers such as Giorgio Agamben, Hardt and Negri, Emmanuel Levinas, Carl Von Clausewitz, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Michael Walzer, Michel Foucault and William Connolly. Combining a diversity of critical thought with analyses of the War on Terror, Iraq, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the Vietnam War, the Indonesian crisis, globalization and the new drive for empire, Burke refuses easy answers, or to abandon hope. This innovative study will be of interest to students and researchers of politics and international relations, security studies, social and cultural theory and philosophy. |