A matter of principle ; humanitarian arguments for war in Iraq
Current debate over the motives, ideological justifications, and outcomes of the war with Iraq have been strident and polarizing. A Matter of Principle is the first volume gathering critical voices from around the world to offer an alternative perspective on the prevailing pro-war and anti-war posit...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley, CA :
University of California Press
2005.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b31877850*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: The liberal-humanitarian case for the war in Iraq / Thomas Cushman
- Reconsidering regime change
- The case for regime change / Christopher Hitchens
- Liberal legacies, Europe's totalitarian era and the Iraq war: historical conjectures and comparisons / Jeffrey Herf
- "Regime change": the case of Iraq / Jan Narveson
- In the murk of it: the Iraq crisis reconsidered / Mitchell Cohen
- Philosophical arguments
- National interest and international law / Roger Scruton
- Just war against an outlaw region / Mehdi Mozaffari
- Moral arguments and the war in Iraq: sovereignty, feasibility, agency, and consequences / Daniel Kofman
- Critiques of the left
- A friendly drink in a time of war / Paul Berman
- Wielding the moral club / Ian Buruma
- Peace, human rights, and the moral choices of the churches / Jan Faber
- Ethical correctness and the decline of the left / Jonathan Ree
- Pages from a daily journal of argument / Norman Geras
- Liberal realism or liberal idealism: the Iraq war and the limits of tolerance / Richard Just
- European dimensions
- Iraq and the Europeans / John Lloyd
- Guilt's end: how Germany re-defined the lessons of its past during the Iraq war / Richard Herzinger
- The Iraq war and its French critics / Michel Taubmann
- Tempting illusions, scary realities, or the emperor's new clothes / Anders Jerichow
- Solidarity
- Anti-totalitarianism as a vocation / Thomas Cushman and Adam Michnik
- Sometimes a war saves people / Jose Ramos-Horta
- Gulf war syndrome mark II: the case for siding with the Iraqi people / Johann Hari
- "They don't know one little thing" / Pamela Bone
- "Why did it take you so long to get here?" / Ann Clwyd
- Liberal statesmanship
- Full statement to the House of Commons
- The threat of global terrorism / Tony Blair.
