Across the texts constituting the laws of war, the word war is one of the most frequent lexical items, its dominant lexicogrammatical environment being in the phrase of war. While this combination seems unremarkable, given the durability of organized violence and the significance of this register for attempts to regulate the violence of war, the paper explores the ideological work of this phrase, including both the effects of the dominant pattern and its lexicogrammatical ‘opportunity cost’. The paper argues that the patterning of war in the laws of war shows a naturalizing of war in which the category is taken for granted, despite its context being the construction of law. In addition, the patterning reveals a paradoxical aversion to putting war at the centre of the laws of war. We argue this ‘decentring’ of war in the laws of war is a token of Malešević’s ‘ontological dissonance’ at the heart of modernity, a profound inability to reconcile our abhorrence of violence with the killing that is tolerated and defended as the ‘legitimate’ price of war.

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战争的“存在结构”：解释战争法中的“战争”一词

在构成战争法的文本中，“战争”一词是最常见的词汇之一，其主要词汇语法环境是“战争”一词。虽然这种组合看起来并不引人注目，但考虑到有组织暴力的持久性以及该记录对规范战争暴力的重要性，本文探讨了该短语的意识形态工作，包括主导模式的影响及其词汇语法“机会”成本'。该论文认为，战争法中的战争模式显示了战争的自然化，其中战争类别被视为理所当然，尽管其背景是法律的建构。此外，这种模式揭示了人们对将战争置于战争法中心的矛盾的厌恶。我们认为战争法中战争的这种“去中心化”是马莱舍维奇在现代性核心的“本体论失调”的象征，是一种深刻的无法调和我们对暴力的憎恶与被容忍和捍卫为“合法”的杀戮的现象。战争的代价。