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The Ethics of Destruction: Norms and Force in International Relations. By Ward Thomas. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2001. 222p. $39.95 cloth, $16.95 paper

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 January 2004

David Clinton
David Clinton
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Tulane University
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Extract

In an era marked by a worldwide war against terrorism and the recapturing of the language of good and evil in descriptions of one's own war aims and the actions of one's enemy, The Ethics of Destruction arrives at an appropriate time. The intentionally provocative title captures its apparently paradoxical aim of combining the effort to act justly and the effort to destroy. In the course of this exercise in amalgamation, it also illustrates the mixture of self-interest, technological capability, normative expectations, and political shrewdness that takes center stage when international conflict looms.

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Book Reviews
Information
Perspectives on Politics , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , March 2003 , pp. 235 - 236
Copyright
2003 by the American Political Science Association

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