Overview
- Defines pacifism’s appeal, its claim to attention and its claim to authority
- Presents a crucial global intellectual history of pacifism, supplementing traditional Euro-American articulations of pacifism with a survey of its articulation in Orthodox-Christian, Hinduist, Buddhist, Islamic, and Jewish sites
- Explores the prospects of a pacifist global order
Part of the book series: Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies (RCS)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Contemporary Ethos of Pacifism
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Global Intellectual History of Pacifism
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A Pacifist Global Order?
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About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Tom Sauer is Associate Professor in International Politics at the Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium. He is co-editor of Nuclear Terrorism: Countering the Threat, and author of Eliminating Nuclear Weapons: The Role of Missile Defense and Nuclear Inertia: US Nuclear Weapons Policy after the Cold War.
Dominiek Lootens is Deputy Academic Director at University Centre Saint Ignatius Antwerp, Belgium, Vice-President Society for Intercultural Pastoral Care and Counselling, International Advisor International Thomas Merton Society, and Co-Editor of Where Are We? Pastoral Environments and Care for Migrants: Intercultural and Interreligious Perspectives.
Barbara Segaert is scientific coordinator at the University Centre Saint-Ignatius Antwerp, Belgium, where she develops academic programmes on various topics of contemporary relevance to society. She was co-editor of Genocides: an Interdisciplinary Approach to Risk and Resilience.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Pacifism’s Appeal
Book Subtitle: Ethos, History, Politics
Editors: Jorg Kustermans, Tom Sauer, Dominiek Lootens, Barbara Segaert
Series Title: Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13427-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-13426-6Published: 21 March 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-13429-7Published: 14 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-13427-3Published: 13 March 2019
Series ISSN: 1759-3735
Series E-ISSN: 2752-857X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 247
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Peace Studies, Conflict Studies, Military and Defence Studies, Terrorism and Political Violence, International Relations Theory, Politics and Religion