| War Stories Contributor(s): Webel, Charles P. (Editor), Larkin, Bruce D. (Author) |
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ISBN: 082045107X ISBN-13: 9780820451077 Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi OUR PRICE: $96.28 Product Type: Hardcover Published: March 2001 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Technology & Engineering | Military Science - Political Science | History & Theory - General - Political Science | Security (national & International) |
| Dewey: 355.02 |
| LCCN: 00062960 |
| Series: Conflict and Conciousness: Studies in War, Peace, and Social Thought |
| Physical Information: 226 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: War continues to occur and bewilder, despite the keen attention of scholars, generals, and officials. This book takes accounts of war - told, interpreted, retold, recast, and enacted - as its focus. It argues that war propagates from war stories into plans for the future. The vehicle is politics, ongoing, surging negotiation of interpretations and designs. Politics defies closure in civil society, but governments must take authoritative decisions. If war stories in circulation confirm war preparations, war threats, and war itself as appropriate for their circumstances, governments organize for war and undertake matching designs and choices. A war avoidance policy delegitimates the war choice, providing robust alternatives in mutual reassurance and collective security. |