Only the Dead – The Persistence Of War In The Modern Age
General:
Name: Only the Dead – The Persistence Of War In The Modern Age
Format: epub
Size: 5.87 MB
Book:
Title: Only the Dead
Author: Bear F. Braumoeller
Language: English
Year: 2019
Subjects: Politics, Military, Nonfiction
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780190849535
Total pages: 400 str.
Description:
The idea that war is going out of style has become the conventional wisdom in recent years. But in Only the Dead, award-winning author Bear Braumoeller demonstrates that it shouldn’t have. With a rare combination of historical expertise, statistical acumen, and accessible prose, Braumoeller shows that the evidence simply doesn’t support the decline-of-war thesis propounded by scholars like Steven Pinker. He argues that the key to understanding trends in warfare lies, not in the spread of humanitarian values, but rather in the formation of international orders-sets of expectations about behavior that allow countries to work in concert, as they did in the Concert of Europe and have done in the postwar Western liberal order. With a nod toward the American sociologist Charles Tilly, who argued that "war made the state and the state made war," Braumoeller shows argues that the same is true of international orders: while they reduce conflict within their borders, they…
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