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Can I read Justifying violence: Communicative ethics and the use of force in Kosovo (New Approaches to Conflict Analysis) on EtoBox?

Justifying violence: Communicative ethics and the use of force in Kosovo (New Approaches to Conflict Analysis) by Naomi Head is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Justifying violence: Communicative ethics and the use of force in Kosovo (New Approaches to Conflict Analysis) about?

When is the use of force for humanitarian purposes legitimate? The book examines this question through one of the most controversial examples of humanitarian intervention in the post Cold War period: the 1999 NATO intervention in Kosovo. Justifying Violence applies a critical theoretical approach to an interrogation of the communicative practices which underpin claims to legitimacy for the use of force by actors in international politics. Drawing on the theory of communicative ethics, the book develops an innovative conceptual framework which contributes a critical communicative dimension to the question of legitimacy that extends beyond the moral and legal approaches so often applied to the intervention in Kosovo. The empirical application of communicative ethics offers a provocative and nuanced account which contests conventional interpretations of the legitimacy of NATO's intervention.

Who reads Justifying violence: Communicative ethics and the use of force in Kosovo (New Approaches to Conflict Analysis)?

It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.

Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Naomi Head
Publisher
Manchester University Press ; Distributed in the U.S. exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan
Published
2012
Language
EN
ISBN
9781526130235
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Political Science, Philosophy, History

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