Sibylle Scheipers (Univ Senior Lecturer in International Relations

Unlawful Combatants

A Genealogy of the Irregular Fighter

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The book investigates the emergence and the development of irregular fighters, such as guerrillas, rebels, insurgents, and terrorists throughout the history of modern war. It presents a historically based critique of the twenty-first century notion of the irregular fighter as an 'unlawful combatant'.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 586g
• ISBN-13: 9780199646111
• ISBN-10: 0199646112
• Artikelnr.: 47870279

Autorenporträt

Sibylle Scheipers is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of St Andrews. Before joining the School of International Relations, she was Director of Studies of the Changing Character of War Programme at Oxford University. Her research focuses on the law of armed conflict, prisoners-of-war, irregular fighters, and detention and interrogation in the 'war on terror'.

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: Introduction
* 2: The Making of the Irregular Fighter, 1740-1815
* 3: The Nineteenth Century: Rebels, Rifles, and the Laws of War
* 4: The Second World War: Anti-Partisan Warfare, Genocide, and the
Rebirth of the Auxiliary Fighter
* 5: Wars in the Colonies: Orientalism and the Social Production of
Colonial Subjects
* 6: Irregular Fighters in the Twenty-first Century: Between 'Unlawful
Combatants' and 'Rebel' Auxiliaries
* 7: Conclusion
* Bibliography