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The changing character of war
- Title
- The changing character of war / edited by Hew Strachan and Sibylle Scheipers.
- Publication
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
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- Description
- x, 564 p.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 12-1795
- ISBN
- 9780199596737 (acid-free paper)
- 0199596735 (acid-free paper)
- LCCN
- 2011929283
- OCLC
- 687684026
- Title
- The changing character of war / edited by Hew Strachan and Sibylle Scheipers.
- Imprint
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Strachan, Hew.Scheipers, Sibylle.Oxford Leverhulme Programme on the Changing Character of War.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 12-1795