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War.
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War (Philosophy)
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Descript |
x, 564 p. |
Note |
"The Oxford Leverhulme Programme on the Changing Character of War." |
Contents |
Introduction : the changing character of war / Hew Strachan and Sibylle Scheipers -- The changing character of war / Azar Gat -- Had a distinct template for a 'Western Way of War' been established before 1800? / David Parrott -- Changes in war : the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars / Michael Broers -- The change from within / Gil-li Vardi -- 'Killing is easy' : the atomic bomb and the temptation of terror / Gerard J. DeGroot -- The 'new wars' thesis revisited / Mats Berdal -- What is really changing? change and continuity in global terrorism / Audrey Kurth Cronin -- Why go to War? / The purpose of war -- Humanitarian intervention / David J.B. Trim -- Democracy and war in the strategic thought of Giulio Douhet / Thomas Hippler -- Religion in the War on Terror / Alia Brahimi -- The changing character of civil wars, 1800-2009 / Stathis N. Kalyvas -- Crime versus war / William Reno -- Who fights? / The changing identities of combatants -- War without the people / Pascal Vennesson -- The Changing Character of Private Force / Sarah Percy -- Who fights? : a comparative demographic depiction of terrorists and insurgents in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries / Bruce Hoffman -- Warlords / Kimberly Marten -- The European Union, multilateralism, and the use of force / Anne Deighton -- Robots at war : the new battlefield / Peter W. Singer -- The civilian in modern war / Adam Roberts -- Killing civilians / Uwe Steinhoff -- The status and protections of prisoners of war and detainees / Sibylle Scheipers -- The challenge of the child soldier / Guy S. Goodwin-Gill -- American strategic culture : problems and prospects / Antulio J Echevarria II -- Morality and Law in War / David Rodin -- Target-selection norms, torture norms, and growing US permissiveness / Henry Shue -- The return of realism? war and changing concepts of the political / Patricia Owens -- Strategy in the twenty-first century / Hew Strachan -- Conclusion : Absent War Studies? War, Knowledge, and Critique / Tarak Barkawi and Shane Brighton. |
Alt author |
Strachan, Hew.
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Scheipers, Sibylle.
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Oxford Leverhulme Programme on the Changing Character of War.
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ISBN |
9780199596737 |
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0199596735 |
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