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Diplomatic Interventions

Conflict and Change in a Globalizing World

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  • © 2005

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Authors:
  1. K. M. Fierke

    1. School of Politics and International Studies, Queen’s University, Belfast, Ireland

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Cause or Constitution?

    • K. M. Fierke
    Pages 1-18

  3. War and Diplomacy

    • K. M. Fierke
    Pages 19-40

  4. Moral Interventions

    • K. M. Fierke
    Pages 41-60

  5. Legal Interventions

    • K. M. Fierke
    Pages 61-78

  6. Military Interventions

    • K. M. Fierke
    Pages 79-100

  7. Economic Interventions

    • K. M. Fierke
    Pages 101-116

  8. Cultural Interventions

    • K. M. Fierke
    Pages 117-136

  9. Therapeutic Interventions

    • K. M. Fierke
    Pages 137-157

  10. Critical Interventions

    • K. M. Fierke
    Pages 158-179

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 180-221
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About this book

Diplomatic Interventions argues that war is a social construction. In so doing, it unsettles the definition of intervention, as a coercive interference by one state in the affairs of another, to examine the range of communicative or 'diplomatic' practices which through their presence modify the experience of war. The tension between claims that war is pervasive and that war is a social construct is analysed in relation to a range of moral, legal, military, economic, cultural, and therapeutic interventions. The concluding chapter highlights how the book itself is a critical intervention that requires us look at again from a new angle at international practice.

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' Diplomatic Interventions is an important contribution to the constructivist literature, offering a compelling argument for the social construction of war. With a breadth that spans the just war doctrine, humanitarian intervention, war crimes, pre-emptive self-defence, arms sales, cultural propaganda, and much more, Fierke persuasively argues that, in effect, war is what we make of it. Essential reading for all who study war and conflict resolution.' - Brian Frederking, McKendree College, USA

Authors and Affiliations

  • School of Politics and International Studies, Queen’s University, Belfast, Ireland

    K. M. Fierke

About the author

K.M. FIERKE is a Reader in the School of Politics and International Studies at Queen's University Belfast. She is author of Changing Games, Changing Strategies: Critical Investigations in Security (1998), co-editor of Constructing International Relations: The Next Generation (2001), and has published articles in several prominent journals as well as contributing to numerous edited books.

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