The good war
Subtitle: NATO and the liberal conscience in Afghanistan
By: M.J. Williams
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 171
ISBN-13: 9780230294288
Subjects: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Affairs & Administration; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / International Security; North Atlantic Treaty Organization; Afghan War, 2001-; POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General
Description: "The Good War tackles the issue of NATO in Afghanistan, exploring NATO's evolution in the 1990s and blending NATO's transformation from a reactive defense organization into a pro-active risk manager with the ethic of liberalism. It raises questions, such as why an alliance built upon the territorial defense of Europe ended up in Afghanistan"--
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Introduction - On Wars: 'Good' and 'Bad'; title: NATO in an Age of Risk; title: Empires of Liberty; title: The Hedgehog and the Fox: Euro-American Visions of 9/11; title: Soldiers of Misfortune; title: International (Dis)Organization; title: Empire Lite; title: Beyond Crisis: NATO, Afghanistan and Security in a Networked World; title: Epilogue - Revisiting the Liberal Conscience.