War: A Genealogy of Western Ideas and Practices

by Beatrice Heuser

War has been conceptualised from a military perspective, but also from ethical, legal, and philosophical viewpoints. These different analytical perspectives are all necessary to understand the many dimensions war, the continua on which war is situated - from small-scale to large-scale, from limited in time or long, from less to extremely destructive, with varying aims, and degrees of involvement of populations.
Western civilisations have conceptualised...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198796897
• ISBN13: 9780198796893
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 446 Pages
• Weight: 1.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.4"