The Changing Character of War

Herausgeber: Scheipers, Sibylle; Strachan, Hew

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Produktbeschreibung

The Changing Character of War unites scholars from the disciplines of history, politics, law, and philosophy to ask in what ways the character of war today has changed from war in the past, and how the wars of today differ from each other. It discusses who fights, why they fight, and how they fight.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press(UK)
• Seitenzahl: 576
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. September 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 863g
• ISBN-13: 9780199688005
• ISBN-10: 0199688001
• Artikelnr.: 39374115

Autorenporträt

Hew Strachan is Chichele Professor of the History of War and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford; Director of the Oxford Programme on the Changing Character of War. He has been Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, 1975-78, and 1979 to date (Life Fellow since 1992); Senior Lecturer, Dept of War Studies, RMA Sandhurst 1978-79; Professor of Modern History, University of Glasgow, 1992-2001, and founding Director of the Scottish Centre for War Studies. Member of the Chief of the Defence Staff's Strategic Advisory Panel 2010; Trustee Imperial War Museum 2010; Member of the Defence Academy Advisory Board; Commissioner, Commonwealth War Graves Commission; and Fellow, Royal Society of Edinburgh. Sibylle Scheipers is Lecturer in International Relations at the University of St Andrews. She is Director of Studies for the Oxford Changing Character of War programme. Previously she held a postdoctoral fellowship at Chatham House, London.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction: The Changing Character of War
* PART I: The Need for a Historical Perspective: What has Changed?
* 1: Azar Gat: The Changing Character of War
* 2: David Parrott: Had a Distinct Template for a 'Western Way of War'
Been Established Before 1800?
* 3: Michael Broers: Changes in War: The French Revolutionary and
Napoleonic Wars
* 4: Gil-li Vardi: The Change from Within
* 5: Gerard J. DeGroot: 'Killing is Easy': The Atomic Bomb and the
Temptation of Terror
* 6: Mats Berdal: The 'New Wars' Thesis Revisited
* 7: Audrey Kurth Cronin: What is Really Changing? Change and
Continuity in Global Terrorism
* PART II: The Purpose of War: Why go to War?
* 8: David J.B. Trim: Humanitarian intervention
* 9: Thomas Hippler: Democracy and War in the Strategic Thought of
Giulio Douhet
* 10: Alia Brahimi: Religion in the War on Terror
* 11: Stathis N. Kalyvas: The Changing Character of Civil Wars,
1800-2009
* 12: William Reno: Crime versus War
* PART III: The Changing Identities of Combatants: Who Fights?
* 13: Pascal Vennesson: War Without the People
* 14: Sarah Percy: The Changing Character of Private Force
* 15: Bruce Hoffman: Who Fights?-A Comparative Demographic Depiction of
Terrorists and Insurgents in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries
* 16: Kimberly Marten: Warlords
* 17: Anne Deighton: The European Union, Multilateralism, and the Use
of Force
* 18: Peter W. Singer: Robots at War: The New Battlefield
* PART IV: The Changing Identities of Non-combatants
* 19: Adam Roberts: The Civilian in Modern War
* 20: Uwe Steinhoff: Killing Civilians
* 21: Sibylle Scheipers: The Status and Protections of Prisoners of War
and Detainees
* 22: Guy S. Goodwin-Gill: The Challenge of the Child Soldier
* PART V: The Ideas Which Enable us to Understand War
* 23: Antulio J Echevarria II: American Strategic Culture: Problems and
Prospects
* 24: David Rodin: Morality and Law in War
* 25: Henry Shue: Target-selection Norms, Torture Norms, and Growing US
Permissiveness
* 26: Patricia Owens: he Return of Realism? War and Changing Concepts
of the Political
* 27: Hew Strachan: Strategy in the Twenty-first Century
* Conclusion: Absent War Studies? War, Knowledge, and Critique