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Humane How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War

Moyn Samuel
Heftet / 2022 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9781839766190
Publisert
2022-01-18
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Verso Books
Vekt
478 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
153 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
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Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
416

Forfatter
Moyn Samuel

Biographical note

Samuel Moyn is Henry R. Luce Professor of Jurisprudence at Yale Law School and Professor of History at Yale University. He has written several books in his fields of European intellectual history and human rights history, including The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History (2010), Human Rights and the End of HIstory (2014), and Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World (2018). He writes regularly for Boston Review, the Chronicle of Higher Education, Dissent, The Nation, The New Republic, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal. In winter 2022, he is giving the prestigious Carlyle Lectures at Oxford University.

Humane How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War

Moyn Samuel
Heftet / 2022 / Engelsk
Moyn Samuel
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We tend to think of the rise of humanitarian laws constraining the exercise of force as an unalloyed good. But Samuel Moyn's stunning new book, <i>Humane</i>, fundamentally upends this conventional wisdom, highlighting the extent to which efforts to rationalize war-making have gone hand in hand with an American Century marked by preemptive violence, "forever wars," and a near-limitless global military footprint. In the process, Moyn also recovers and places at the center of political debate the now long-forgotten abolitionist tradition, which sought to end war rather than to reform it. This profound historical retelling is an essential and groundbreaking contribution. It will be debated for years to come, and should be read by any scholar, lawyer, or activist concerned with issues of war and peace

- Aziz Rana, author of <i>The Two Faces of American Freedom</i>,

Ours is an era of endless conflict, whose ideal symbol is the armed drone - occasionally firing a missile, which may kill the wrong people, but too far removed from everyday American life to rouse public objections...Moyn's argument goes beyond the expected humanitarian critique

- Dexter Filkin, The New Yorker

Smart and provocative...Arriving 20 years after 9/11, as the United States has withdrawn its troops from Afghanistan, <i>Humane </i>encourages readers to ask central questions too often lost amid the chatter of the foreign policy establishment

New York Times

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[A] learned and provocative book...The biggest value of Moyn's book is the ethical questions he raises. Since war today has become so much less bloody, and involves so many fewer Americans, what is to stop it from becoming perpetual?

- Edward Luce,

Moyn skilfully takes us through the debates prompted by Vietnam about international law and how it should be adapted and enforced. Out of this came a determination to find a more humane way to fight such wars.

- Lawrence Freedman, New Statesman

Provocative

- Lawrence R. Douglas, Times Literary Supplement

[A] remarkably direct, focused and yet passionate analysis ... Moyn demonstrates throughout why war itself is the continuing problem.

- Arvind Sivaramakrishnan, The Hindu

A ground-breaking work

- Marc Martorell Junyent, Global Policy Journal

Important

- Henrietta Cullinan, Peace News

The rise of American Empire has coincided with appeals for a more humane war. But what if efforts to make war more ethical-to ban torture and limit civilian casualties-have only shored up the military enterprise and made it sturdier? During this period the campaign to abolish wars has transformed into to opposing war crimes, with fateful consequences. The ramifications of this shift became apparent in the post-9/11 era. By that time, the US military had embraced the agenda of humane war, driven both by the availability of precision weaponry and the need to protect its image. The battle shifted from the streets to the courtroom, where the tactics of the war on terror were litigated but its foundational assumptions went without serious challenge. These trends only accelerated during the Obama and Trump presidencies. Even as the two administrations spoke of American power and morality in radically different tones, they ushered in the second decade of the "forever" war.Humane is the story of how America went off to fight and never came back, and how armed combat was transformed from an imperfect tool for resolving disputes into an integral component of the modern condition. As American wars have become more humane, they have also become endless. This provocative book argues that this development might not represent progress at all.
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How the case to abolish conflict failed and heralded the era of 'forever wars'.
We tend to think of the rise of humanitarian laws constraining the exercise of force as an unalloyed good. But Samuel Moyn's stunning new book, Humane, fundamentally upends this conventional wisdom, highlighting the extent to which efforts to rationalize war-making have gone hand in hand with an American Century marked by preemptive violence, "forever wars," and a near-limitless global military footprint. In the process, Moyn also recovers and places at the center of political debate the now long-forgotten abolitionist tradition, which sought to end war rather than to reform it. This profound historical retelling is an essential and groundbreaking contribution. It will be debated for years to come, and should be read by any scholar, lawyer, or activist concerned with issues of war and peace
Les mer
How the case to abolish conflict failed and heralded the era of 'forever wars'.
Major work from leading US intellectual on human rights, American Empire and war.

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We tend to think of the rise of humanitarian laws constraining the exercise of force as an unalloyed good. But Samuel Moyn's stunning new book, <i>Humane</i>, fundamentally upends this conventional wisdom, highlighting the extent to which efforts to rationalize war-making have gone hand in hand with an American Century marked by preemptive violence, "forever wars," and a near-limitless global military footprint. In the process, Moyn also recovers and places at the center of political debate the now long-forgotten abolitionist tradition, which sought to end war rather than to reform it. This profound historical retelling is an essential and groundbreaking contribution. It will be debated for years to come, and should be read by any scholar, lawyer, or activist concerned with issues of war and peace

- Aziz Rana, author of <i>The Two Faces of American Freedom</i>,

Ours is an era of endless conflict, whose ideal symbol is the armed drone - occasionally firing a missile, which may kill the wrong people, but too far removed from everyday American life to rouse public objections...Moyn's argument goes beyond the expected humanitarian critique

- Dexter Filkin, The New Yorker

Smart and provocative...Arriving 20 years after 9/11, as the United States has withdrawn its troops from Afghanistan, <i>Humane </i>encourages readers to ask central questions too often lost amid the chatter of the foreign policy establishment

New York Times

Se alle

[A] learned and provocative book...The biggest value of Moyn's book is the ethical questions he raises. Since war today has become so much less bloody, and involves so many fewer Americans, what is to stop it from becoming perpetual?

- Edward Luce,

Moyn skilfully takes us through the debates prompted by Vietnam about international law and how it should be adapted and enforced. Out of this came a determination to find a more humane way to fight such wars.

- Lawrence Freedman, New Statesman

Provocative

- Lawrence R. Douglas, Times Literary Supplement

[A] remarkably direct, focused and yet passionate analysis ... Moyn demonstrates throughout why war itself is the continuing problem.

- Arvind Sivaramakrishnan, The Hindu

A ground-breaking work

- Marc Martorell Junyent, Global Policy Journal

Important

- Henrietta Cullinan, Peace News

The rise of American Empire has coincided with appeals for a more humane war. But what if efforts to make war more ethical-to ban torture and limit civilian casualties-have only shored up the military enterprise and made it sturdier? During this period the campaign to abolish wars has transformed into to opposing war crimes, with fateful consequences. The ramifications of this shift became apparent in the post-9/11 era. By that time, the US military had embraced the agenda of humane war, driven both by the availability of precision weaponry and the need to protect its image. The battle shifted from the streets to the courtroom, where the tactics of the war on terror were litigated but its foundational assumptions went without serious challenge. These trends only accelerated during the Obama and Trump presidencies. Even as the two administrations spoke of American power and morality in radically different tones, they ushered in the second decade of the "forever" war.Humane is the story of how America went off to fight and never came back, and how armed combat was transformed from an imperfect tool for resolving disputes into an integral component of the modern condition. As American wars have become more humane, they have also become endless. This provocative book argues that this development might not represent progress at all.
Les mer
How the case to abolish conflict failed and heralded the era of 'forever wars'.
We tend to think of the rise of humanitarian laws constraining the exercise of force as an unalloyed good. But Samuel Moyn's stunning new book, Humane, fundamentally upends this conventional wisdom, highlighting the extent to which efforts to rationalize war-making have gone hand in hand with an American Century marked by preemptive violence, "forever wars," and a near-limitless global military footprint. In the process, Moyn also recovers and places at the center of political debate the now long-forgotten abolitionist tradition, which sought to end war rather than to reform it. This profound historical retelling is an essential and groundbreaking contribution. It will be debated for years to come, and should be read by any scholar, lawyer, or activist concerned with issues of war and peace
Les mer
How the case to abolish conflict failed and heralded the era of 'forever wars'.
Major work from leading US intellectual on human rights, American Empire and war.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781839766190
Publisert
2022-01-18
Utgiver
Vendor
Verso Books
Vekt
478 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
153 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
416

Forfatter
Moyn Samuel

Biographical note

Samuel Moyn is Henry R. Luce Professor of Jurisprudence at Yale Law School and Professor of History at Yale University. He has written several books in his fields of European intellectual history and human rights history, including The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History (2010), Human Rights and the End of HIstory (2014), and Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World (2018). He writes regularly for Boston Review, the Chronicle of Higher Education, Dissent, The Nation, The New Republic, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal. In winter 2022, he is giving the prestigious Carlyle Lectures at Oxford University.

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