War in International Thought by Jens Bartelson PAPERBACK 9781108410496

War in International Thought\nby Jens Bartelson\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Jens Bartelson\nTitle: War in International Thought\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: International relations\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press\nPublication year: 2017\nISBN-13: 9781108410496\nISBN-10: 1108410499\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nAs scholars and citizens, we are predisposed to think of war as a profoundly destructive activity that ideally should be abolished altogether. Yet before the twentieth century, war was widely understood as a productive force in human affairs that should be harnessed for the purposes of creating peace and order. Analyzing how the concept of war has been used in different contexts from the seventeenth to the late nineteenth century, Jens Bartelson addr.