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On War And Democracy
Hardback Edition: 1
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.
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Publication date : 2016
Subjects: Non-fiction, Humanities, History, Philosophy, Politics, Military History, Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Political Structures: Democracy, Warfare & Defence