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Tokens of Power: Rethinking War
Ann Hironaka
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Description for Tokens of Power: Rethinking War
hardcover. What motivates going to war? This book reexamines how leaders make decisions based on appearances of power over military reality. Num Pages: 314 pages. BIC Classification: JPS; JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 152. .
War presents a curious paradox. Interstate war is arguably the most carefully planned endeavor by states, yet military history is filled with disasters and blunders of monumental proportions. These anomalies happen because most military history presumes that states are pursuing optimal strategies in a competitive environment. This book offers an alternative narrative in which the pillars of military planning - evaluations of power, strategy, and interests - are theorized as social constructions rather than simple material realities. States may be fighting wars primarily to gain or maintain power, yet in any given historical era such pursuits serve only to propel ... Read more
War presents a curious paradox. Interstate war is arguably the most carefully planned endeavor by states, yet military history is filled with disasters and blunders of monumental proportions. These anomalies happen because most military history presumes that states are pursuing optimal strategies in a competitive environment. This book offers an alternative narrative in which the pillars of military planning - evaluations of power, strategy, and interests - are theorized as social constructions rather than simple material realities. States may be fighting wars primarily to gain or maintain power, yet in any given historical era such pursuits serve only to propel ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
314
Condition
New
Number of Pages
342
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107175112
SKU
V9781107175112
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Ref
99-14
About Ann Hironaka
Ann Hironaka is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine. She studies war, politics, and the environment from a global perspective. Her book, Neverending Wars (2005), examined the intractable civil wars of the contemporary era and the role of the international community in perpetuating these conflicts. Her recent book, Greening the Globe (Cambridge, 2014), examined the historical emergence ... Read more
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