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Title

Justice and violence : political violence, pacifism and cultural transformation / edited by Allan Eickelmann, Eric Nelson, Tom Lansford.

Publication

Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub. Co., c2005.

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Additional Authors

• Eickelmann, Allan.
• Nelson, Eric, 1970-
• Lansford, Tom.

Description

xxii, 252 p.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Ethics and global politics

Subject

• Political violence
• Pacific settlement of international disputes
• United States > Military policy
• United States > Foreign relations

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [242]-249) and index.

Contents

Introduction / Allan Eickelmann, Tom Lansford, and Eric Nelson -- The justice of violence -- Just war: an ethic of restraint or the defense of order? / Valerie O.F. Morkevicius -- Moralizing the violence or a just response? The dimensions and limitations of the Bush doctrine / Chris Dolan -- The President and the Congress in concert: declaring and making war in the United States / Susan Weldon Scott -- A political calculus of apology: Japan and its neighbors / Girma Negash -- Violence as injustice -- Power to destroy, power to heal: violence, state power and paradigm shifts for peace / Carol Hunter -- The ethics of living American primacy, or, towards a global Jim Crow, and its discontents / Will Watson -- The fist of pacifism / Angela Gordon & Tobias Gibson -- Violence and non-violence as constitutional argument: an analysis of the 1963 Civil Rights demonstrations in Birmingham, Alabama / Neal Allen -- Fred Smith, in 'Jack Rocks, earrings and the occupation of Moss #3: emblems of the struggle for decency in the Appalachian coal fields / Fred Smith -- Beyond justice and injustice -- A case of communist indoctrination and American enticement during the Korean War / Bryan D. McKnight -- From rollback to preemption: a comparison of the Reagan and Bush doctrines / Robert Pauly Jr. -- The 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq: militarism in the service of geopolitics / Edmund Byrne -- Beyond politics / Helena Cristini -- Conclusion: no clash, but dialogue among religions and nations: towards a new paradigm of international relations / Hans Küng.

Call Number

JFE 05-11156

ISBN

0754645460 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2005015267

OCLC

60589075

Title

Justice and violence : political violence, pacifism and cultural transformation / edited by Allan Eickelmann, Eric Nelson, Tom Lansford.

Imprint

Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub. Co., c2005.

Series

Ethics and global politics

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [242]-249) and index.

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Table of contents

Added Author

Eickelmann, Allan.

Nelson, Eric, 1970-

Lansford, Tom.

Research Call Number

JFE 05-11156