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Whose Life Is Worth More?: Hierarchies of Risk and Death in Contemporary Wars New edition [Kõva köide]

  • Formaat: Hardback, 328 pages, kõrgus x laius: 229x152 mm, 10 tables, 1 figure
  • Ilmumisaeg: 26-Nov-2019
  • Kirjastus: Stanford University Press
  • ISBN-10: 1503606821
  • ISBN-13: 9781503606821
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  • Formaat: Hardback, 328 pages, kõrgus x laius: 229x152 mm, 10 tables, 1 figure
  • Ilmumisaeg: 26-Nov-2019
  • Kirjastus: Stanford University Press
  • ISBN-10: 1503606821
  • ISBN-13: 9781503606821
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Modern democracies face tough life-and-death choices in armed conflicts. Chief among them is how to weigh the value of soldiers' lives against those of civilians on both sides. The first of its kind, Whose Life Is Worth More? reveals that how these decisions are made is much more nuanced than conventional wisdom suggests. When these states are entangled in prolonged conflicts, hierarchies emerge and evolve to weigh the value of human life.

Yagil Levy delves into a wealth of contemporary conflicts, including the drone war in Pakistan, the Kosovo war, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the US and UK wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Cultural narratives about the nature and necessity of war, public rhetoric about external threats facing the nation, antiwar movements, and democratic values all contribute to the perceived validity of civilian and soldier deaths. By looking beyond the military to the cultural and political factors that shape policies, this book provides tools to understand how democracies really decide whose life is worth more.

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"A tour de force. Theoretically innovative and empirically rich. With devastating precision Yagil Levy dismantles many of the myths of heroic soldiers and hapless civilians. He shows that the wages of war are far more calculated and deliberate than previously thought."Thomas W. Smith, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg "Yagil Levy's provocative book is an essential correction to standard assumptions about how actors in democratic states weigh the costs of war. Whose Life Is Worth More? reveals the deeper political and social factors that inform hierarchies of life and death among citizens,soldiers, and enemy non-combatants."Jennifer M Welsh, Canada 150 Research Chair in Global Governance and Security, McGill University

Figures and Tables
vii
Acronyms ix
Acknowledgments xi
1 Introduction
1(10)
2 Determinants of the Death Hierarchy
11(33)
3 How to Identify Variations in Risk Transfer
44(8)
4 Risking One's Own Soldiers in Jenin and Basra
52(39)
5 Passive Force Protection in Iraq and Gaza
91(30)
6 Strategic Transfer of Risk in the Kosovo War
121(33)
7 Tactical Transfer of Risk in Fallujah and Gaza
154(36)
8 Re-Risking One's Own Soldiers in the Surge in Iraq and Afghanistan
190(35)
9 Conclusion
225(16)
Notes 241(6)
References 247(40)
Index 287
Yagil Levy is Professor of Political Sociology and Public Policy at the Open University of Israel. He is the author of several books, most recently The Divine Commander: The Theocratization of the Israeli Military (2015).