Stephanie Carvin, Michael John Williams

Law, Science, Liberalism and the American Way of Warfare

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Produktbeschreibung

This is the first book to combine a study of technology, law and liberalism in American warfare.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 498g
• ISBN-13: 9781107067172
• ISBN-10: 1107067170
• Artikelnr.: 41610793

Autorenporträt

Stephanie Carvin is Visiting Professor of International Relations at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa. While a Visiting Scholar at the George Washington University School of Law, Dr Carvin served as an expert advisor to the US Department of Defense during their writing of the new US manual on the laws of war. She is the author of Prisoners of America's Wars (2010).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Law and science in the Western way of war
2. Conceptualizing the American way of war
3. Vietnam and the 'science' of war
4. Immaculate destruction
5. Revolution denied: the 'war' on terror
6. Back to the future?