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The Ethics of War and Peace

ISBN: 978-0-7456-4167-6
Hardcover
224 pages
July 2009, Polity
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  • A clear and comprehensive introduction to the diverse and wide-ranging perspectives in the ethics of war and peace

  • Provides a fair-minded and engaging analysis of the different ethical theories in traditional and contemporary debates
  • Makes a strong case for a cosmopolitan pacifist position, arguing that we need to see peace in more positive terms than merely the absence of war


  • Uses a wide range of examples from across the world and includes discussion of nuclear weapons, new wars, terrorism, humanitarian intervention and human security
  • Each chapter contains a helpful survey of its contents at the beginning and a set of questions for individual reflection or group discussion at the end

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