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Jens Bartelson

Jens Bartelson

Professor

Jens Bartelson

Blasts from the Past: War and Fracture in the International System

Författare

  • Jens Bartelson

Summary, in English

This article is a brief inquiry into the changing meaning of war in Western political thought, with special reference to its role in fracturing the contemporary international system. I argue that contemporary debates about the changing nature of war have failed to note what I take to be the most important change in our understanding of war in recent decades—the return of the long-suppressed view that regards war as a productive force in human affairs. I substantiate this argument by showing how war was long believed to be productive of sociopolitical order in general, and of the modern state and the international system in particular. I then proceed to show how similar conceptions of war inform contemporary practices of military intervention and nation-building, and how the acceptance of this view among scholars has made them complicit in its legitimization and reproduction.

Avdelning/ar

  • Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

Publiceringsår

2016

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

352-368

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

International Political Sociology

Volym

10

Issue

4

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

John Wiley & Sons Inc.

Ämne

  • Political Science

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1749-5687