A theory of truces
By: Nir Eisikovits, Suffolk University, Boston, USA
Series: Palgrave studies in ethics and public policy
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781137385949
Subjects: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Peace; Termination; HISTORY / Military / Other; Armistices; PHILOSOPHY / Political; HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877); War
Description: "This book is about truces. It focuses on unsatisfying, partial, 'patched up' ceasefire arrangements; it describes the risks we take and the opportunities we miss when we insist that the only acceptable way to end political violence is to end it comprehensively, once and for all, with a peace for the ages. Eisikovits argues that our thinking about war's end is trapped in a false dichotomy between the ideas of war and peace. A Theory of Truces breaks free from that dichotomy and helps us understand how wars actually end and how we can diminish their viciousness when they cannot be ended"--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Introduction; title: 1. A Theory of Truces; title: 2. The Legitimacy of Truce Thinking; title: 3. Truces in the Western Tradition; title: 4. The Conceptual Neighborhood; title: 5. Three Case Studies.