Overview
Provides a clear, global picture of the dramatic changes in the nature of war over recent decades
Explicates the failure of the politics and project of peace and the breakdown of the war/peace binary
Explores the inability of national and transnational organisations to sufficiently deliver peace in the face of contemporary causes of conflict
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Facing Conditions of War
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Being Without Peace
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The Power of the Imperative
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About this book
This book presents the concept of ‘unstaging’ war as a strategic response to the failure of the discourse and institutions of peace. This failure is explained by exploring the changing character of conflict in current and emergent global circumstances, such as asymmetrical conflicts, insurgencies, and terrorism. Fry argues that this pluralisation of war has broken the binary relation between war and peace: conflict is no longer self-evident, and consequentially the changes in the conditions, nature, systems, philosophies and technologies of war must be addressed.
Through a deep understanding of contemporary war, Fry explains why peace fails as both idea and process, before presenting ‘Unstaging War’ as a concept and nascent practice that acknowledges conflict as structurally present, and so is not able to be dealt with by attempts to create peace. Against a backdrop of increasingly tense relations between global power blocs, the beginnings of a new nuclear arms race, and the ever-increasing human and environmental impacts of climate change, a more viable alternative to war is urgently needed. Unstaging War is not claimed as a solution, but rather as an exploration of critical problems and an opening into the means of engaging with them.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Tony Fry is a design philosopher, Adjunct Professor at the University of Tasmania, Australia, and Visiting Professor at the University of Ibagué, Colombia. He is a former soldier and has worked in a number of post-conflict situations. Tony is the author of fourteen books, the most recent being Remaking Cities (2017).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Unstaging War, Confronting Conflict and Peace
Authors: Tony Fry
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24720-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-24719-5Published: 07 August 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-24722-5Published: 14 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-24720-1Published: 24 July 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 332
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Political Philosophy, Ethics