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The Warrior's Honor: Ethnic War and the Modern Conscience

Michael Ignatieff

Since the early 1990s, Michael Ignatieff has traveled the world's war zones, from Bosnia to the West Bank, from Afghanistan to central Africa. The Warrior's Honor is a report and a reflection on what he has seen in the places where ethnic war has become a way of life. Ignatieff charts the rise of the new moral interventionists--the relief workers, reporters, delegates, and diplomats who believe that other people's misery is of concern to us all. And he brings us face-to-face with the new ethnic warriors--the warlords, gunmen, and paramilitaries--who have escalated postmodern war to an unprecedented level of savagery. Hard-hitting and passionate, The Warrior's Honor is a profound and searching exploration of the perils and obligations of moral citizenship in a world scarred by war and genocide.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
  • Publish Date: Oct 15th, 1998
  • Pages: 228
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.50in - 5.60in - 0.60in - 0.65lb
  • EAN: 9780805055191
  • Categories: Modern - 20th Century - GeneralMilitary - GeneralCultural & Ethnic Studies - General

About the Author

Ignatieff, Michael: - Michael Ignatieff is the author of Isaiah Berlin and The Warrior's Honor, as well as over fifteen other acclaimed books, including a memoir, The Russian Album, and the Booker finalist novel Scar Tissue. He writes regularly for the New York Times, the New York Review of Books, and the London Review of Books. Former head of Canada's Liberal Party, director of the Carr Center for Human Rights at Harvard's Kennedy School, and president of Central European University, he is currently a professor at CEU in Vienna.

Praise for this book

"*A moving and superb discussion of the dilemmas of modern humanitarianism amidst modern cruelty." --William Shawcross

"A splid and beautifully written book. Honest, lucid, subtle, full of important information." --Conor Cruise O'Brien

"Compelling and penetrating." --The Boston Globe

"Ignatieff's argument is simple and, to my mind, irresistible." --Alan Ryan, The New York Times Book Review