Diplomatic Interventions
Conflict and Change in a Globalizing World
1st Edition
Published on 22. April 2005
XIV, 221 pages
978-0-230-50991-7 (ISBN)
Description
Diplomatic Interventions argues that war is a social construction. In so doing, it unsettles the definition of intervention, as a coercive interference by one state in the affairs of another, to examine the range of communicative or 'diplomatic' practices which through their presence modify the experience of war. The tension between claims that war is pervasive and that war is a social construct is analysed in relation to a range of moral, legal, military, economic, cultural, and therapeutic interventions. The concluding chapter highlights how the book itself is a critical intervention that requires us look at again from a new angle at international practice.
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' Diplomatic Interventions is an important contribution to the constructivist literature, offering a compelling argument for the social construction of war. With a breadth that spans the just war doctrine, humanitarian intervention, war crimes, pre-emptive self-defence, arms sales, cultural propaganda, and much more, Fierke persuasively argues that, in effect, war is what we make of it. Essential reading for all who study war and conflict resolution.' - Brian Frederking, McKendree College, USA
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K.M. FIERKE is a Reader in the School of Politics and International Studies at Queen's University Belfast. She is author of
Changing Games, Changing Strategies: Critical Investigations in Security
(1998), co-editor of
Constructing International Relations: The Next Generation
(2001), and has published articles in several prominent journals as well as contributing to numerous edited books.
Content
Table of Contents Preface Cause or Constitution? War and Diplomacy Moral Interventions Legal Interventions Military Interventions Economic Interventions Cultural Interventions Therapeutic Interventions Critical Interventions
