War for peace : genealogies of a violent ideal in Western and Islamic thought /
Peace is the elimination of war, but peace also authorizes war. We are informed today that this universal ideal can only be secured by the wars that it eliminates. The paradoxical position of peace, opposed to war, authorizing war,is encapsulated by the claim that 'war is for the sake of peace&...
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| Online Access: | Electronic book from Oxford Scholarship Online |
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| Language: | English |
| Published: | New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, [2019] |
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