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 todayhas 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. INDICE: 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 theWar 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
- ISBN: 978-0-19-959673-7
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 530
- Fecha Publicación: 01/05/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés