The Ethics of Destruction : Norms and Force in International Relations /
Many assume that in international politics, and especially in war, "anything goes." Sherman famously declared war "is all hell." The implication behind the maxim is that in war there is no order, only chaos; no mercy, only cruelty; no restraint, only suffering. Ward Thomas finds...
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2001.
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Table des matières:
- Ethics, norms, and the study of international relations
- Principle meets power : groundwork for an analysis of ethical norms
- International assassination : an infamous and execrable practice
- Aerial bombing to 1945 : a frightful cataclysm
- Aerial bombing since 1945 : a norm revived
- The limits of international ethics.


