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War time : an idea, its history, its consequences /
When is wartime? On the surface, it is a period of time in which a society is at war. But we now live in what President Obama has called "an age without surrender ceremonies," as the Administration announced an "end to conflict in Iraq," even though conflict on the ground is ongo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press, USA,
[2012]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | When is wartime? On the surface, it is a period of time in which a society is at war. But we now live in what President Obama has called "an age without surrender ceremonies," as the Administration announced an "end to conflict in Iraq," even though conflict on the ground is ongoing. It is no longer easy to distinguish between wartime and peacetime. In this meditation on war, time, and the law, the author argues that wartime is not as discrete a time period as we like to think. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (221 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [161]-209) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199777488 0199777489 1283427176 9781283427173 0199913471 9780199913473 9786613427175 6613427179 |