European values in international relations. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Vilho Harle.
• Editors: Harle, Vilho
• Other Names: Rauhan- ja konfliktintutkimuslaitos (Tampere, Finland); TAPRI Workshop on European Values in International Relations; TAPRI Workshop on European Values in International Relations
• Contents: Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Preface; 1 European Roots of Dualism and its Alternatives in International Relations; Dualistic modes of thinking; The relevance of the traditions of dualism; Common humanity as an alternative to dualism; Notes; Bibliography; 2 Heroism, the Construction of Evil, and Violence; The sociology of heroism; The dialectic of heroism; Heroic violence and reification; The process of reification; Naming; Legitimation; Myth-making; Sedimentation; Ritual; Transcending Manicheism; Notes; Bibliography 3 The Bomb-Sign: Notes on the Overvaluation of the ObjectIntroduction; The problem of tradition; Animal stories within the ritual; The overvaluation tendency and the peace movement; The bomb and its degeneration as a deterrent; The 'classical' phase; The 'sublime' phase; The 'scandalous' phase; Re-establishing the body politic; The bomb and revelation; Conclusion; Bibliography; 4 Burke the International Theorist-or the War of the Sons of Light and the Sons of Darkness; Burke the international theorist; Burke for peace; Burke for war; The war of the Sons of Light against the Sons of Darkness DiscussionNotes; Bibliography; 5 Carl Schmitt's Concept of the State and the 'Enemy'; Notes; Bibliography; 6 Philosophical History and the Third World: Hegel on Africa and Asia; Fabricating the single 'enlightened' world; Postmodernism and the Third World; Inventing the philosophy of history; Reason and the non-Europeans; Transcending Hegelianism; Notes; Bibliography; 7 Savagery and Neo-Savagery: An African Perspective on Peace; A negation of Europeanism; The many faces of the savage; The Savage disguised and involved; Europe and the resuscitation of savagery; In conclusion; Bibliography 8 The German Question from the Conservative Point of View, the Nuclear-Cosmic Age and Karl JaspersFeldmeyer and the time factor; Friedman and reunification as a security concept; Bernard Willms and the national imperative; Stiirmer, the raison d'etat and the German question; Jaspers, the German question and the conservative answers of the 1980s; Notes; Bibliography; 9 Violence-An Israeli Perspective; Notes; Bibliography; 10 In Europe's Shadow: Zionism and the Palestinian Fate; I; II; Postscript (May 1989); Notes; Bibliography; 11 European Values after the 'Euromissile Crisis' Europe, source and victim of the process of militarizationThe inadequacy of the actual theories of peace and war; Towards a new theoretical framework; Europe, continent of militarization=modernization; 'European identity' as a reaction; The new European peace movement's view of the 'Euromissile debate'; Europe in the aftermath of the Euromissile crisis; In search of the theoretical foundations of a European cultural identity; Denis de Rougemont: from personalism to federalism; De Rougemont after the 'Euromissile crisis'; Conclusion: a cultural transformation towards peace in Europe?
• Publisher Details: London, UK : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 327.1/01; International relations -- Congresses; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / International; POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General; Civilization; International relations; Europe -- Civilization -- Congresses; Europe; Electronic books; Conference papers and proceedings
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781474291316; 1474291317
• Related ISBNs: 9780861878406
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 31, 2016).
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