作品情報

「現実ではない」戦争が、何を見えなくしてしまうのかを問う。

Michael Ignatieff は、コソボ戦争を題材に、ハイテク化した現代戦がどのように現実感を失わせるかを論じた。政治的分析と現地取材を組み合わせ、介入の是非をめぐる議論に強い骨格を与えた。

書籍情報

出版社

Henry Holt & Co

発売日

2000-05-01

ページ数

246ページ

言語

英語

サイズ

15.75 x 2.37 x 23.88 cm

ISBN-13

9780805064902

ISBN-10

0805064907

価格

2627 JPY

カテゴリ

洋書/Science/History & Philosophy/History of Technology

For a decade, Michael Ignatieff has provided eyewitness accounts and penetrating analyses from the world's battle zones. In Virtual War, he describes the latest phase in modern combat: war fought by remote control. In 'real' war, nations are mobilised, soldiers fight and die, victories are won. In virtual war, however, there is often no formal declaration of hostilities, the combatants are strike pilots and computer programmers, the nation enlists as a TV audience, and instead of defeat and victory there is only an uncertain endgame. Kosovo was such a virtual war; a war in which US and NATO forces did the fighting but only Kosovars and Serbs did the dying. Ignatieff examines the conflict through the eyes of key players - politicians, diplomats, and generals - and through the experience of the victims, the refugees and civilians who suffered. As unrest continues in the Balkans, East Timor, and other places around the world, Ignatieff raises the troubling possibility that virtual wars, so much easier to fight, could become the way superpowers impose their will in the century ahead.

Michael Ignatieff is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books , among other publications. He is the author of many acclaimed books, including Blood and Belonging , Isaiah Berlin , and The Warrior's Honor . He lives in London.

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