Keywords
memory ruins
economic miracle
work of mourning
guilt and responsibility in post-war
victimization
planetarity
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Abstract
In this brilliant essay, WILLIAM RASCH traces current ideas about global war to their first installment in the post-war climate of occupied Germany. RASCH takes issue, in particular, with the current transformation in the nature of war —so called zero casualties war or war at a distance—, hailed as the most important transformation in the field of international relations and international law in the 21st century, and rediscovers its articulation with the carpet bombing (bombenkrieg) of World War II and its reception by an all too complacent media. As a result, the reader finds him/herself
traveling back and forth between Baghdad or Putumayo and Dresden or Berlin, with unsettling consequences. We publish it here as a warning, in the war-peace debates now ravaging Colombia.
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