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Alex Barder

Paul Joseph, Are Americans Becoming More Peaceful?

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Paul Joseph readily acknowledges in his preface that the argument embodied in the title, Are Americans Becoming More Peaceful?, seems a paradoxical questionto pose today. In the aftermath of the attacks of September 11th the United States started two major wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.  It remains in both areas, fighting intractable insurgencies while a …

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Warfare State: Britain, 1920-1970 By David Edgerton

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Rethinking and reexamining the history of the vital relations between science, technology and the state is an increasingly urgent task. Any serious endeavor to do so must bring back into the policy equation the military connection, spotlighting what  Deleuze and Guattari in  A Thousand Plateaus bluntly call the War Machine. Since Eisenhower’s 1961 farewell address…

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