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At a time of grave ethical failure in global security affairs, this
is the first book to bring together emerging theoretical debates on
ethics and ethical reasoning within security studies. In this
volume, working from a diverse range of
perspectives-poststructuralism, liberalism, feminism, just war,
securitization, and critical theory-leading scholars in the field
of security studies consider the potential for ethical visions of
security, and lay the ground for a new field: "ethical security
studies". These ethical 'visions' of security engage directly with
the meaning and value of security and security practice, and
consider four key questions: * Who, or what, should be secured? *
What are the fundamental grounds and commitments of different
security ethics? * Who or what are the most legitimate agents,
providers or speakers of security? * What do ethical security
practices look like? What ethical principles, arguments, or
procedures, will generate and guide ethical security practices?
Informed by a rich understanding of the intellectual and historical
experience of security, the contributors advance innovative
methodological, analytical, political and ethical arguments that
represent the cutting edge of the field. This book opens a new
phase of collaboration and growth that promises to have great
benefits for the more humane, effective and ethical practice of
security politics. This book will be of much interest to students
of critical security studies, ethics, philosophy, and international
relations.
At a time of grave ethical failure in global security affairs, this
is the first book to bring together emerging theoretical debates on
ethics and ethical reasoning within security studies. In this
volume, working from a diverse range of
perspectives-poststructuralism, liberalism, feminism, just war,
securitization, and critical theory-leading scholars in the field
of security studies consider the potential for ethical visions of
security, and lay the ground for a new field: "ethical security
studies". These ethical 'visions' of security engage directly with
the meaning and value of security and security practice, and
consider four key questions: * Who, or what, should be secured? *
What are the fundamental grounds and commitments of different
security ethics? * Who or what are the most legitimate agents,
providers or speakers of security? * What do ethical security
practices look like? What ethical principles, arguments, or
procedures, will generate and guide ethical security practices?
Informed by a rich understanding of the intellectual and historical
experience of security, the contributors advance innovative
methodological, analytical, political and ethical arguments that
represent the cutting edge of the field. This book opens a new
phase of collaboration and growth that promises to have great
benefits for the more humane, effective and ethical practice of
security politics. This book will be of much interest to students
of critical security studies, ethics, philosophy, and international
relations.
This book will be the first systematic examination of the role
that ethics plays in international security in both theory and
practice, and offers the reader a concrete ethics for global
security.
Questions of morality and ethics have long been central to
global security, from the death camps, world wars and H-bombs of
the 20th century, to the humanitarian missions, tsunamis, terrorism
and refugees of the 21st. This book goes beyond the Just War
tradition to demonstrate how ethical commitments influence security
theory, policy and international law, across a range of pressing
global challenges. The book highlights how, from patrolling a
territorial border to maintaining armed forces, security practices
have important ethical implications, by excluding some from
consideration, presenting others as potential threats and exposing
them to harm, and licensing particular actions.
While many scholars and practitioners of security claim little
interest in ethics, ethics clearly has an interest in them. This
innovative book extends the traditional agenda of war and peace to
consider the ethics of force short of war such as sanctions,
deterrence, terrorism, targeted killing, and torture, and the
ethical implications of new security concerns such as identity,
gender, humanitarianism, the responsibility to protect, and the
global ecology. It advances a concrete ethics for an era of global
threats, and makes a case for a cosmopolitan approach to the theory
and practice of security that could inspire a more just, stable and
inclusive global order.
This book fills an important gap in the literature and will be
of much interest to students of ethics, security studies and
international relations.
When security is grounded in exclusion and alienation, ethics give
license to killing and war, and freedom is a mask for imperial
violence, how should we act?
"Security, Ethics & Violence "sounds a warning; not only are
global patterns of insecurity, violence and conflict getting ever
more destructive and out of hand, but the ways we understand and
respond to them will only prolong the crisis. In this book Anthony
Burke critiques the fundamental categories of global political
life, and then lights a path out.
- Burke presents a ground-breaking analysis of the historical roots
of sovereignty and security, his critique of just war theory, and
offers important new essays on strategy, the concept of freedom and
US exceptionalism.
- This volume pursues searching critical engagements with thinkers
such as Agamben, Hardt; Negri, Levinas, Clausewitz, Elshtain,
Walzer, Foucault and Connolly.
- Combining cutting-edge theoretical critique with analyses of the
war on terror, Iraq, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the Vietnam
war, the Indonesian crisis, globalization and the new drive for
empire, this is a book that refuses easy answers, or to abandon
hope.
This new text will be of key interest to students and researchers
of Politics and International Relations, Security Studies, Social
and Cultural Theory and Philosophy.
When security is grounded in exclusion and alienation, ethics give
license to killing and war, and freedom is a mask for imperial
violence, how should we act?
"Security, Ethics & Violence "sounds a warning; not only are
global patterns of insecurity, violence and conflict getting ever
more destructive and out of hand, but the ways we understand and
respond to them will only prolong the crisis. In this book Anthony
Burke critiques the fundamental categories of global political
life, and then lights a path out.
- Burke presents a ground-breaking analysis of the historical roots
of sovereignty and security, his critique of just war theory, and
offers important new essays on strategy, the concept of freedom and
US exceptionalism.
- This volume pursues searching critical engagements with thinkers
such as Agamben, Hardt; Negri, Levinas, Clausewitz, Elshtain,
Walzer, Foucault and Connolly.
- Combining cutting-edge theoretical critique with analyses of the
war on terror, Iraq, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the Vietnam
war, the Indonesian crisis, globalization and the new drive for
empire, this is a book that refuses easy answers, or to abandon
hope.
This new text will be of key interest to students and researchers
of Politics and International Relations, Security Studies, Social
and Cultural Theory and Philosophy.
This book will be the first systematic examination of the role
that ethics plays in international security in both theory and
practice, and offers the reader a concrete ethics for global
security.
Questions of morality and ethics have long been central to
global security, from the death camps, world wars and H-bombs of
the 20th century, to the humanitarian missions, tsunamis, terrorism
and refugees of the 21st. This book goes beyond the Just War
tradition to demonstrate how ethical commitments influence security
theory, policy and international law, across a range of pressing
global challenges. The book highlights how, from patrolling a
territorial border to maintaining armed forces, security practices
have important ethical implications, by excluding some from
consideration, presenting others as potential threats and exposing
them to harm, and licensing particular actions.
While many scholars and practitioners of security claim little
interest in ethics, ethics clearly has an interest in them. This
innovative book extends the traditional agenda of war and peace to
consider the ethics of force short of war such as sanctions,
deterrence, terrorism, targeted killing, and torture, and the
ethical implications of new security concerns such as identity,
gender, humanitarianism, the responsibility to protect, and the
global ecology. It advances a concrete ethics for an era of global
threats, and makes a case for a cosmopolitan approach to the theory
and practice of security that could inspire a more just, stable and
inclusive global order.
This book fills an important gap in the literature and will be
of much interest to students of ethics, security studies and
international relations.
This innovative volume gathers some of the world's best scholars to
analyse the world's collective international efforts to address
globalised threats through global security governance. Addressing
global and planetary forms of insecurity that include nuclear
weapons, conventional arms, gender violence, climate change,
disease, bio weapons, cyber-conflict, children in conflict, crimes
against humanity, and refugees, this timely book critiques how they
are addressed by global institutions and regimes, and advocates
important conceptual, institutional, and policy reforms. This is an
invaluable resource for students, scholars and policymakers in
international health, security and development.
This innovative volume gathers some of the world's best scholars to
analyse the world's collective international efforts to address
globalised threats through global security governance. Addressing
global and planetary forms of insecurity that include nuclear
weapons, conventional arms, gender violence, climate change,
disease, bio weapons, cyber-conflict, children in conflict, crimes
against humanity, and refugees, this timely book critiques how they
are addressed by global institutions and regimes, and advocates
important conceptual, institutional, and policy reforms. This is an
invaluable resource for students, scholars and policymakers in
international health, security and development.
This book tells the story of the last sword ever designed by a
major power for its army to use as a weapon, not as an article of a
dress uniform. The sword was the U.S. Model 1913 Cavalry Saber; the
designer was George S. Patton, then a lieutenant on the staff of
the Army chief of staff. Patton participated in the modern
pentathlon in Stockholm in 1912, which included fencing, coming
fifth overall. No one in the U.S. Army could be better suited,
therefore, to design its last major edged weapon. The Last Sword
provides an illustrated overview of the history of cavalry swords
and their employment on the battlefield from the end of the
Renaissance, through the Napoleonic Era, the Mexican-American War,
the Civil War, the Spanish-American War, culminating with the
Patton cavalry saber, and includes descriptions of a number of the
more famous cavalry charges. Patton's unswerving belief in the
value of horse-mounted cavalry, and in the value of those troopers
and officers being equipped with the sword he designed, is
described using his own words. He continued to advocate
horse-mounted cavalry right up to the start of the Second World
War. Though mechanized squadrons replaced the conventional cavalry,
it was not quite the end of Patton's sword as some Model 1913
Cavalry Sabers were converted to fighting knives carried by GIs
during the war. The book is fully illustrated with images from the
collections of the Smithsonian Institution Museum of American
History, the Library of Congress, the General George S. Patton
Museum, the National Museum of the U.S. Army, the Connecticut
Historical Society, and from private collections, most of which
have never been published before.
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The War of Words (Paperback)
Anthony Burke, Kyle Jensen, Jack Selzer; Kenneth Burke
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R766
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When Kenneth Burke conceived his celebrated "Motivorum" project in
the 1940s and 1950s, he envisioned it in three parts. Whereas the
third part, A Symbolic of Motives, was never finished, A Grammar of
Motives (1945) and A Rhetoric of Motives (1950) have become
canonical theoretical documents. A Rhetoric of Motives was
originally intended to be a two-part book. Here, at last, is the
second volume, the until-now unpublished War of Words, where Burke
brilliantly exposes the rhetorical devices that sponsor war in the
name of peace. Discouraging militarism during the Cold War even as
it catalogues belligerent persuasive strategies and tactics that
remain in use today, The War of Words reveals how popular news
media outlets can, wittingly or not, foment international tensions
and armaments during tumultuous political periods. This
authoritative edition includes an introduction from the editors
explaining the compositional history and cultural contexts of both
The War of Words and A Rhetoric of Motives. The War of Words
illuminates the study of modern rhetoric even as it deepens our
understanding of post-World War II politics.
In the wake of 9/11, the Asian crisis and the 2004 tsunami,
traditional analytical frameworks are increasingly unable to
explain how individuals and communities are rendered insecure, or
advance individual, global or environmental security. In the
Asia-Pacific, the accepted wisdom of realism has meant that
analyses rarely move beyond the statist, militarist and
exclusionary assumptions that underpin traditional realpolitik.
This innovative new book challenges these limitations and addresses
the missing problems, people and vulnerabilities of the
Asia-Pacific region. It also turns a critical eye on traditional
interstate strategic dynamics. Critical security in the
Asia-Pacific applies both a critical theoretical approach that
interrogates the deeper assumptions underpinning security
discourses, and a human-centred policy approach that focuses on the
security, welfare and emancipation of individuals and communities.
Leading Asia-Pacific researchers combine to apply these frameworks
to the most pressing issues in the region, from the Korean
peninsula to environmental change, Indonesian conflict, the 'war on
terror' and the plight of refugees. The result is a sophisticated
and accessible account of often-neglected realities of
marginalization in the region, and a compelling argument for the
empowerment and security of the most vulnerable. -- .
When John Kennedy ran for president, some Americans thought a
Catholic couldn’t—or shouldn’t—win the White House. Credit
Bing Crosby, among others, that he did.For much of American
history, Catholics’ perceived allegiance to an international
church centered in Rome excluded them from full membership in
society, a prejudice as strong as those against blacks and Jews.
Now Anthony Burke Smith shows how the intersection of the mass
media and the visually rich culture of Catholicism changed that
Protestant perception and, in the process, changed American
culture. Smith examines depictions of and by Catholics in American
popular culture during the critical period between the Great
Depression and the height of the Cold War. He surveys the popular
films, television, and photojournalism of the era that reimagined
Catholicism as an important, even attractive, element of American
life to reveal the deeply political and social meanings of the
Catholic presence in popular culture. Hollywood played a big part
in this midcentury Catholicization of the American imagination, and
Smith showcases the talents of Catholics who made major
contributions to cinema. Leo McCarey’s Oscar-winning film Going
My Way, starring the soothing (and Catholic) Bing Crosby, turned
the Catholic parish into a vehicle for American dreams, while Pat
O’Brien and Spencer Tracy portrayed heroic priests who championed
the underclass in some of the era's biggest hits. And even while a
filmmaker like John Ford rarely focused on clerics and the Church,
Smith reveals how his films gave a distinctly ethnic Catholic
accent to his cinematic depictions of American community. Smith
also looks at the efforts of Henry Luce’s influential Life
magazine to harness Catholicism to a postwar vision of middle-class
prosperity and cultural consensus. And he considers the unexpected
success of Bishop Fulton J. Sheen’s prime-time television show
Life is Worth Living in the 1950s, which offered a Catholic message
that spoke to the anxieties of Cold War audiences. Revealing images
of orthodox belief whose sharpest edges had been softened to
suggest tolerance and goodwill, Smith shows how such
representations overturned stereotypes of Catholics as un-American.
Spanning a time when hot and cold wars challenged Americans’
traditional assumptions about national identity and purpose, his
book conveys the visual style, moral confidence, and international
character of Catholicism that gave it the cultural authority to
represent America.
This book tells you a great deal about how to evaluate and select
housing accommodations for the aging seniors in your life or loved
ones in deteriorating health and reveals information that
administrators at assisted living facilities, home health agencies
and CCRC's, for example, may not tell you unless you ask. It
explores many housing options that boomers and seniors need to
consider when making housing decisions at a critical time in their
lives.
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The War of Words (Hardcover)
Anthony Burke, Kyle Jensen, Jack Selzer; Kenneth Burke
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R2,863
Discovery Miles 28 630
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When Kenneth Burke conceived his celebrated "Motivorum" project in
the 1940s and 1950s, he envisioned it in three parts. Whereas the
third part, A Symbolic of Motives, was never finished, A Grammar of
Motives (1945) and A Rhetoric of Motives (1950) have become
canonical theoretical documents. A Rhetoric of Motives was
originally intended to be a two-part book. Here, at last, is the
second volume, the until-now unpublished War of Words, where Burke
brilliantly exposes the rhetorical devices that sponsor war in the
name of peace. Discouraging militarism during the Cold War even as
it catalogues belligerent persuasive strategies and tactics that
remain in use today, The War of Words reveals how popular news
media outlets can, wittingly or not, foment international tensions
and armaments during tumultuous political periods. This
authoritative edition includes an introduction from the editors
explaining the compositional history and cultural contexts of both
The War of Words and A Rhetoric of Motives. The War of Words
illuminates the study of modern rhetoric even as it deepens our
understanding of post-World War II politics.
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