Points of Conflict
World Peace and the Human Family
1st Edition
By Roy Weatherford
July 28, 1993
Modern coverage of world events suggest that war and violence are key to contemporary society. History can convince us that it has ever been so, and many theorist of international relations argue that nothing is likely to change. Roy Weatherford argues that a profound change in social relations is...
Terrorism and Collective Responsibility
1st Edition
By Burleigh Taylor Wilkins
March 26, 1992
The terrorist threat remains a disturbing issue for the early 1990s. This book explores whether terrorism can ever be morally justifiable and if so under what circumstances.Professor Burleigh Taylor Wilkins suggests that the popular characterisation of terrorists as criminals fails to acknowledge ...
Understanding War: An Essay on the Nuclear Age
1st Edition
By W B Gallie *Decd*, W. B. Gallie
December 27, 1990
First published in 1990. With the exception of Clausewitz, no reflective thinker has seriously engaged with the concept of war - with its persistent changeability and the dominant direction of its changes. The results of this failure are seen in the extreme logical weakness of most debates, during ...