Patricia Owens

Between War and Politics

International Relations and the Thought of Hannah Arendt

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Produktbeschreibung

In this major new assessment of Hannah Arendt's writings on International Relations Patricia Owens provides a compelling case for Arendt's continued relevance to debates about suicide bombing; genocide; the ethics of war; civilian casualties; and the dangers of lies and hypocrisy in wartime.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 164mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 489g
• ISBN-13: 9780199299362
• ISBN-10: 0199299366
• Artikelnr.: 23115722

Autorenporträt

Patricia Owens is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics, Queen Mary, University of London. She holds graduate degrees from Cambridge University and the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. And she has held research positions at Princeton University, the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Southern California.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introduction
2: Violence and Power, Politics and War
3: Who Is Revealed in War? History, War and Storytelling
4: The Boomerang Effect: On the Imperial Origins of Total War
5: 'How Dangerous it Can Be to be Innocent': War and the Law
6: Rage against Hypocrisy: On Liberal Wars for Human Rights
7: Beyond Strauss, Lies and the War in Iraq: A Critique of Neoconservativism
8: The Humanitarian Condition? On War and Making a Global Public
Conclusion
Index