1. Fighting Terrorism 1.1 A New Discourse on War? 1.2 Richard Rorty and the Ethics of War 2. Etiquettes of Atrocity 2.1 Etiquettes of Atrocity 2.2 Discourses on War 2.3 Keeping the Discourse: The United States and Vietnam 2.4 Carl Schmitt and the Theory of the Partisan 3. Changing the Discourse 3.1 Germany and the Eastern Front 1941-5 3.2 France and Algeria 1955-8 3.3 Israel and the Intifada 3.4 Conclusion 4. A New Discourse? 4.1 The War on Terror – Is it a War? 4.2 Excluding Unlawful Combatants 4.3 Network Warfare 4.4 Networked Ethics 5. Grammars of Killing 5.1 Grammars of Killing 5.2 Respecting our Enemies 5.3 Non-Lethal Weapons 6. The Unconditional Imperative 6.1 Jaspers and the Warrior Ethos 6.2 The Micromanagement of the Battlefield 6.3 Corporate Warriors? 6.4 Asimov’s Children 7. Back to the Greeks 7.1 Back to the Greeks? 7.2 Simone Weil and The Iliad 7.3 Thucydides and the Melian Dialogue 7.4 What’s he to Hecuba? 8. The Heuristics of Fear
Christopher Coker is Professor of International Relations, LSE and Visiting Professor at the Staff College, Oslo. He is the author of many books on war, most recently ‘The Warrior Ethos’ (Routledge 2007). He is a former NATO Fellow.
"In an eminently readable and historically informed narrative,
Coker demonstrates that we have rules of war, not because we are
nice but because we are sensible. These rules are hard to apply to
novel situations like the struggle against terrorism, but failure
to do so almost inevitably makes victory more elusive and costlier.
Statesmen, soldiers, diplomats, scholars, and anyone concerned with
the problem of war and ethics, will find this an informative,
provocative and helpful book." Richard Ned Lebow, Dartmouth
College, USA
'A compelling book and an insightful critique of the War on
Terror.' - Aidan Hehir, Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding,
Vol. 4, 1, May 2010'In an eminently readable and historically
informed narrative, Coker demonstrates that we have rules of war,
not because we are nice but because we are sensible. These rules
are hard to apply to novel situations like the struggle against
terrorism, but failure to do so almost inevitably makes victory
more elusive and costlier. Statesmen, soldiers, diplomats,
scholars, and anyone concerned with the problem of war and ethics,
will find this an informative, provocative and helpful book.' -
Richard Ned Lebow, Dartmouth College, USA'Over the last few years
Christopher Coker has developed a far reaching, hard hitting and
profoundly original treatment of war; its character, future and
impact on ourselves and our polities. In Ethics and War in the
Twenty First Century, he carries this argument still further,
posing questions that many will find unsettling, while
interrogating assumptions all too often left unexamined. Written
with grace, elegance and power, and with a reach and range that few
contemporary scholars can match, this is a book that nobody
interested in war and its place in the contemporary world can
afford to ignore.' - Nicholas Rengger, St Andrews University
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