A Theory of Truces (Palgrave Studies in Ethics and Public by Nir Eisikovits

By Nir Eisikovits

This publication argues that knowing truces is important for our skill to wind down wars. we now have paid an excessive amount of cognizance to the assumption of everlasting peace, but few conflicts result in this fashion. The publication describes how truce makers imagine, which truces should be morally justified and gives a philosophical heritage of truce making within the Western tradition.

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