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Commentary on Benjamin Banta: Thinking through Practices that ‘Work’ in a Rapidly Changing World
Author(s) -
Kaldor Mary
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
global policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.602
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1758-5899
pISSN - 1758-5880
DOI - 10.1111/1758-5899.12754
Subject(s) - argument (complex analysis) , work (physics) , epistemology , environmental ethics , sociology , psychology , philosophy , medicine , engineering , mechanical engineering
Benjamin Banta's thoughtful critique of my new wars argument illustrates how difficult it is to escape from prevailing ways of thinking about war. It is not utopianism that underlies my thinking, (though a dose of utopianism is always healthy); rather it an attempt to think through practices that ‘work’ in a rapidly changing world.