Heroism and the Changing Character of War: Toward Post-Heroic Warfare? by Scheipers, S.

Heroism and the Changing Character of War: Toward Post-Heroic Warfare? (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781137362520)

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Heroism and the Changing Character of War: Toward Post-Heroic Warfare? by Scheipers, S.

Heroism and the Changing Character of War: Toward Post-Heroic Warfare?

$129.99
Heroism and the Changing Character of War: Toward Post-Heroic Warfare? by Scheipers, S.

Heroism and the Changing Character of War: Toward Post-Heroic Warfare?

$129.99
Format: Hardcover
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Post-heroism is often perceived as one of the main aspects of change in the character of war. Large parts of the contemporary strategic discourse rest on the assumption that war today is no longer fuelled by heroic motivations, and does not produce any popular public heroes, particularly in western democracies. Willingness to kill or die for the cause of one's socio-political community appears to be either a phenomenon of an historical stage that western states have long left behind, or an indicator of nationalistic or religious fanaticism. This is what has been described as the 'post-heroic condition' of western societies. According to this view, demographic and cultural changes in the west have severely decreased the tolerance for casualties in war. This edited volume provides a critical examination of this idea.

Author: S. Scheipers
ISBN-10: 1137362529
ISBN-13: 9781137362520
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 03/28/2014
Pages: 376
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.60w x 1.20d
By S. Scheipers
By S. Scheipers
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Deborah Avant, University of Denver, USA Peter Barham, Oxford University, UK Joan Beaumont, Australian National University Susan Carruthers, Rutgers University, USA Andrea Dew, US Naval War College Antulio J. Echevarria, US Army War College Peter D. Feaver, Duke University, USA Bernd Greiner, Hamburger Institut f? Sozialforschung, Germany Andreas Herberg-Rothe, University of Applied Sciences in Fulda, Germany Thomas Hippler, Oxford University, USA John Hutchinson, London School of Economics, UK Rob Johnson, Oxford University, UK Anthony King, Exeter University, UK Cheyney Ryan, University of Oregon, USA Peter Schrijvers, University of New South Wales, Australia Nancy Sherman, Georgetown University, USA Rashmi Singh, University of St Andrews, UK Adam Smith, University College London, UK Sir Hew Strachan, All Souls College, Oxford, UK Ingo Trauschweizer, Ohio University, USA Sir Simon Wessely, King's College London, UK

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