Beyond security, ethics and violence : war against the other
"Anthony Burke offers an analysis of the historical roots of sovereignty and security, his critique of just war theory, and new essays on strategy, the concept of freedom and US exceptionalism. He pursues searching critical engagements with thinkers such as Giorgio Agamben, Hardt and Negri, Emmanuel Levinas, Carl von Clausewitz, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Michael Walzer, Michel Foucault and William Connolly. Combining a diversity of critical thought with analyses of the war on terror, Iraq, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the Vietnam war, the Indonesian crisis, globalisation and the new drive for empire, Burke refuses easy answers, or to abandon hope." "This study will be of key interest to students and researchers of politics and international relations, security studies, social and cultural theory and philosophy."--Jacket
xi, 284 pages ; 24 cm.
9780415384643, 9780415410885, 9780203965702, 0415384648, 0415410886, 0203965701
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Introduction: Security, freedom and death
Aporias of security
From the Leviathan to the security state
Poetry outside security
The jagged edges of Southeast Asia
Security after security
Israel, Palestine, and the wall
Strangers without strangeness
Power and difference between Australia and Indonesia
The perverse perseverance of sovereignty
Just war or ethical peace?
Morality and strategic violence after 9/11
Violence and reason on the shoals of Vietnam
Iraq : strategy's burnt offering
Freedom's freedom
American enlightenment and permanent war