As scholars and citizens, we are predisposed to think of war as a
profoundly destructive activity that ideally should be abolished
altogether. Yet before the twentieth century, war was widely
understood as a productive force in human affairs that should be
harnessed for the purposes of creating peace and order. Analyzing
how the concept of war has been used in different contexts from the
seventeenth to the late nineteenth century, Jens Bartelson
addresses this transition by inquiring into the underlying and
often unspoken assumptions about the nature of war, and how these
have shaped our understanding of the modern political world and the
role of war within it. He explores its functions in the process of
state making and in the creation of the modern international system
to bring the argument up to date to the present day, where war is
now on the centre stage of world politics.
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