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Conflicting Orders: How Peace Is Waged

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 March 2007

JASON A. BECKETT
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William Rasch, Sovereignty and Its Discontents: On the Primacy of Conflict and the Structure of the Political, London, Birkbeck University Press (Cavendish Publishing), 2004, ISBN 1859419844, 208 pp., £23.95 (pb).

‘War is for men, for honour and glory.’

‘And death,’ she pointed out.

‘Of course death. That is why women must be protected. Many babies must be born to replace the dead warriors.’

‘It might be better just to stop the wars.’

‘Pah! It is always useless to talk to women. They have no understanding.’

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REVIEW ESSAY
Information
Leiden Journal of International Law , Volume 20 , Issue 1 , March 2007 , pp. 281 - 319
Copyright
© 2007 Foundation of the Leiden Journal of International Law

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