Research Catalog

Title

The warrior's honor : ethnic war and the modern conscience / Michael Ignatieff.

Author

Ignatieff, Michael.

Publication

New York : Metropolitan Books, 1998.

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Details

Description

ix, 207 pages; 22 cm

Summary

• Since the early 1990s, Michael Ignatieff has traveled the world's war zones, from Bosnia to the West Bank, from Afghanistan to central Africa. The Warrior's Honor is a report and a reflection on what he has seen in the places where ethnic war has become a way of life.
• In a series of vivid portraits, Ignatieff charts the rise of the new moral interventionists - the aid workers, reporters, peacekeepers, Red Cross delegates, and diplomats - who believe that other people's misery, no matter how far away, is of concern to us all. He brings us face-to-face with the new ethnic warriors - the warlords, gunmen, and paramilitary forces - who have escalated postmodern war to an unprecedented level of savagery.
• From the encounter of these two groups, he draws dramatic and startling realizations about the ambiguous ethics of engagement, the limited force of moral justice in a world of war, and the inevitable clash between those who defend tribal and national loyalties and those who speak the universal language of human rights.

Subjects

• Social justice
• Social conflict
• Mass media and ethnic relations
• Humanitarian assistance
• Ethnic relations

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-195) and index.

Contents

Is Nothing Sacred? The Ethics of Television -- The Narcissism of Minor Difference -- The Seductiveness of Moral Disgust -- The Warrior's Honor -- The Nightmare from Which We Are Trying to Awake.

ISBN

0805055185 (hc : alk. paper)

LCCN

97028245

OCLC

• 37261089
• ocm37261089

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries