What constitutes war: The cultural logic of modern Western warfare/何以为战 ：现代西方战争的文化逻辑

This book offers a fresh perspective on war and, through case studies of the Suez Canal Crisis, the Gulf War, and the Iraq War, describes the mediating role of culture between the political realities and individual understandings of international conflicts. It helps readers expand the boundaries of conventional sociological thinking and deserves the attention of scholars in the fields of political science, sociology, and cultural studies.

本书从全新的角度理解战争，并通过对苏伊士运河危机、海湾战争和伊拉克战争的个案研究，描述了文化在关于国际冲突的政治现实和个体理解之间的中介调节作用，助于读者扩展常规社会学思考的边界，值得政治学、社会学及文化研究领域的学者关注。