The Changing Character of War

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-19-959673-7
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 576 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 1021 g

Over the last decade (and indeed ever since the Cold War), the rise of insurgents and non-state actors in war, and their readiness to use terror and other irregular methods of fighting, have led commentators to speak of 'new wars'. They have assumed that the 'old wars' were waged solely between states, and were accordingly fought between comparable and 'symmetrical' armed forces. Much of this commentary has lacked context or sophistication. It has been bounded by
norms and theories more than the messiness of reality. Fed by the impact of the 9/11 attacks, it has privileged some wars and certain trends over others. Most obviously it has been historically unaware. But it has also failed to consider many of the other dimensions which help us to define what war is
- legal, ethical, religious, and social. The Changing Character of War, the fruit of a five-year interdisciplinary programme at Oxford of the same name, draws together all these themes, in order to distinguish between what is really changing about war and what only seems to be changing. Self-evidently, as the product of its own times, the character of each war is always changing. But if war's character is in flux, its underlying nature contains its own internal consistency. Each war is
an adversarial business, capable of generating its own dynamic, and therefore of spiralling in directions that are never totally predictable. War is both utilitarian, the tool of policy, and dysfunctional. This book brings together scholars with world-wide reputations, drawn from a clutch of different
disciplines, but united by a common intellectual goal: that of understanding a problem of extraordinary importance for our times.

This book is a project of the Oxford Leverhulme Programme on the Changing Character of War.

Zielgruppe

Scholars and students of war studies, security studies, international history, political philosophy, and international law

Autoren/Hrsg.

Scheipers, Sibylle

Strachan, Hew

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Friedens- und Konfliktforschung
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Konflikt- und Friedensforschung, Rüstungskontrolle, Abrüstung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Kriegsrecht, Territorialrecht, Humanitäres Recht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Hew Strachan and Sibylle Scheipers: 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

Tarak Barkawi and Shane Brighton: Conclusion: Absent War Studies? War, Knowledge, and Critique

Über Autor(innen)

Strachan, Hew
Hew Strachan: 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, etc. Fellow, Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Scheipers, Sibylle
Sibylle Scheipers: soon to be 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.