Fighting Monsters - British-American War-Making and Law-Making

Zusatztext The intellectual energy and pugnacious style of the text make for a tour de force. Informationen zum Autor Rory Brown was a Russell Vick Prize Winner at Jesus College, Cambridge, an Erasmus Scholar at Regensburg University, Germany, a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University, New York City, and received his Doctorate from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. He is a barrister, a member of Inner Temple, and currently practises from 9 Stone Buildings Chambers, Lincoln's Inn, London. Klappentext This book considers how the way we think about law affects the way we make war and how the way we think about war affects the way we make law. Zusammenfassung This book considers how the way we think about law affects the way we make war and how the way we think about war affects the way we make law. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Fighting Monsters 2 Language and Image 3 War and Crime 4 Liberty, Security and Rationality 5 Amity, Enmity and Identity 6 Sex, Terror and Perversion 7 Temporality, Spirituality and Sublimity 8 Economy and Hegemony 9 Parliaments, The Press and The Public Man 10 Legality and Brutality

Product details

• Authors: Rory Brown, Rory S Brown, Rory S. Brown
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.01.2011
• EAN: 9781849460934
• ISBN: 978-1-84946-093-4
• No. of pages: 340
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration; USA, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, LAW / International, LAW / Public, HISTORY / Military / United States, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Military Science, HISTORY / Military / Strategy, United Kingdom, Great Britain, United States of America, USA, British Isles, International humanitarian law, Public international law: humanitarian law, Theory of warfare and military science, Theory of warfare & military science