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On War and Democracy
Christopher Kutz
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Description for On War and Democracy
Hardback. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: JPA; JPF; JPSD; JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
On War and Democracy provides a richly nuanced examination of the moral justifications democracies often invoke to wage war. In this compelling and provocative book, Christopher Kutz argues that democratic principles can be both fertile and toxic ground for the project of limiting war's violence. Only by learning to view war as limited by our democratic values--rather than as a tool for promoting them--can we hope to arrest the slide toward the borderless, seemingly endless democratic holy wars and campaigns of remote killings we are witnessing today, and to stop permanently the use of torture and secret law. ... Read more
On War and Democracy provides a richly nuanced examination of the moral justifications democracies often invoke to wage war. In this compelling and provocative book, Christopher Kutz argues that democratic principles can be both fertile and toxic ground for the project of limiting war's violence. Only by learning to view war as limited by our democratic values--rather than as a tool for promoting them--can we hope to arrest the slide toward the borderless, seemingly endless democratic holy wars and campaigns of remote killings we are witnessing today, and to stop permanently the use of torture and secret law. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
627g
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691167848
SKU
V9780691167848
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About Christopher Kutz
Christopher Kutz is the C. William Maxeiner Distinguished Professor of Law and director of the Kadish Center for Morality, Law, and Public Affairs at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Complicity: Ethics and Law for a Collective Age.
Reviews for On War and Democracy
On War and Democracy is well written, well argued, and highly readable. Its most compelling points link a type of regime with how a regime wages war, a link that calls to mind the ethics of drones, torture, and other contemporary war tactics.
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