Forward, August 13th, 2004
Walzer, Michael Forward 08-13-2004 Michael Walzer is UPS Foundation professor of social studies at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J. He is the author or editor of more than a dozen books and is co-editor of Dissent magazine. The above is excerpted from the introduction to "Arguing About War," out this month from Yale University Press.
Clausewitz's famous line, that war is the continuation of politics by other means, probably was meant to be provocative, but it seems to me obviously true. The claim is equally obvious the other way around: Politics is the continuation of war...
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