What Is War For?

Jack McDonald (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

172 Seiten

2023
Bristol University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5292-2838-0 (ISBN)

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This book examines how changes to social rules reshape how states explain their military actions, and changes to technology and society transform contemporary warfare. Analysing the role that war serves in global politics, it outlines the ways in which war affects the contemporary world, from international relations to our day-to-day lives.

How does armed conflict shape global politics? And, critically, can it ever be regulated, a necessary first step to achieving a more peaceful world?

This book examines the factors that define and shape war in the contemporary world, and how changes to technology and society are transforming warfare.

Focusing on efforts to regulate and eliminate war, it provides a guide to the complex problems it poses now – and threatens in the future.

Jack McDonald is Senior Lecturer in War Studies at the Department of War Studies, King’s College London. He is the author of two books examining the relationship between the law and ethics of war, and emerging technology.

1. War in the Contemporary World

2. War in Theory and Practice

3. The Changing Context and Character of War

4. The Problems of War

5. The Future of War

6. Conclusion

Erscheinungsdatum	10.03.2023
Reihe/Serie	What Is It For?
Zusatzinfo	Not illustrated
Sprache	englisch
Maße	127 x 203 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
ISBN-10	1-5292-2838-7 / 1529228387
ISBN-13	978-1-5292-2838-0 / 9781529228380
Zustand	Neuware