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On War and Democracy (Paperback)
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On War and Democracy provides a richly nuanced examination of the
moral justifications democracies often invoke to wage war. In this
compelling and provocative book, Christopher Kutz argues that
democratic principles can be both fertile and toxic ground for the
project of limiting war's violence. Only by learning to view war as
limited by our democratic values-rather than as a tool for
promoting them-can we hope to arrest the slide toward the
borderless, seemingly endless democratic "holy wars" and campaigns
of remote killings we are witnessing today, and to stop permanently
the use of torture and secret law. Kutz shows how our democratic
values, understood incautiously and incorrectly, can actually
undermine the goal of limiting war. He helps us better understand
why we are tempted to believe that collective violence in the name
of politics can be legitimate when individual violence is not. In
doing so, he offers a bold new account of democratic agency that
acknowledges the need for national defense and the promotion of
liberty abroad while limiting the temptations of military
intervention. Kutz demonstrates why we must address concerns about
the means of waging war-including remote war and surveillance-and
why we must create institutions to safeguard some nondemocratic
values, such as dignity and martial honor, from the threat of
democratic politics. On War and Democracy reveals why understanding
democracy in terms of political agency, not institutional process,
is crucial to limiting when and how democracies use violence.
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