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Prisoners in War
Edited by Sibylle Scheipers
342 pages
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234x156mm
978-0-19-957757-6
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Hardback
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25 February 2010
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- The only comprehensive book on prisoners in war
- Brings together contributions by leading scholars from the fields of history, international relations, law, and philosophy
The issue of prisoners in war is a highly timely topic that has received much attention from both scholars and practitioners since the start of the military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq and the ensuing legal and political problems concerning detainees in those conflicts. This book analyses these contemporary problems and challenges against the background of their historical development. It provides a multidisciplinary yet highly coherent perspective on the historical trajectory of legal and ethical norms in this field by integrating the historical analysis of war with a study of the emergence of the modern legal regime of prisoners in war. In doing so, it provides the first comprehensive study of prisoners, detainees and internees in war, covering a
broad range of both regular and irregular wars from the crusades to contemporary counterinsurgency campaigns.
The book revolves around two major developments: First, there has been a continuous increase in the political relevance of prisoners in war, in particular since the emergence of POW camps in the nineteenth century. Secondly, and related, the growth in the legal regime pertaining to prisoners had contradictory consequences. Whilst it enhanced the protection of prisoners in regular conflicts, its state-centric bias tends to exclude combatants who do not fit the template of regular inter-state war. Detainees in the 'war on terror' embody both tendencies, the development of which, however, is by no means a novel phenomenon.
This book is a
project of the Oxford Leverhulme Programme on the Changing Character of War.Readership: Scholars and students of international relations, international law, military history, and political philosophy.
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Edited by Sibylle Scheipers, Director of Studies, Changing Character of War Programme, University of Oxford. Contributors:
John B. Bellinger, III is Legal Adviser to the Secretary of State, US Department of State.
Dr Huw Bennett is Lecturer in Defence Studies at the Joint Services Command and Staff College, Shrivenham/King's College War Studies Department.
Dr Raphaëlle Branche is Senior Lecturer of Modern and Contemporary History, University of Paris-1-Panthéon-Sorbonne.
Dr Alia Brahimi, Research Associate with the Oxford Leverhulme Changing Character of War Programme, Department of Politics and International
Relations, Oxford University.
Professor David D. Cole is Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center.
Dr Matthew Happold is Reader in Law, Law School, University of Hull.
Professor Isabel V. Hull is John Stambaugh Professor of History, Department of History, Cornell University.
Professor Alan R. Kramer is Associate Professor, History Department, Trinity College Dublin.
Chia Lehnardt is Doctoral student at Humboldt University Berlin.
Professor Frédéric Mégret is Assistant Professor of Law, Law Faculty, McGill University, Canada Research Chair on the Law of Human Rights and Legal Pluralism and Director of the McGill Clinic for the Sierra Leone Special Court.
Professor Bob Moore is Professor of 20th
Century European History, Department of History, University of Sheffield.
Dr Stephen C. Neff is Reader in Public International Law, School of Law, University of Edinburgh.
Dr Rüdiger Overmans is Researcher (ret.) at the Military History Research Institute, Potsdam.
Dr Bettina Renz is Lecturer in International Security, School of Politics and International Relations, Nottingham University.
Professor Sir Adam Roberts is Senior Research Fellow of the Centre for International Studies, Department of Politics and International Relations, Oxford University, and Emeritus Fellow of Balliol College.
Sibylle Scheipers is Director of Studies of the Changing Character of War Programme, Oxford University.
Dr Philip Towle is Reader in
International Relations, Centre of International Studies, Cambridge University.
Professor Peter H. Wilson is Grant Professor of History, Department of History, University of Hull.
Professor Neville Wylie is Associate Professor in Politics, School of Politics and International Relations, Nottingham University.
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"This book seeks to blend historical and legal perspectives concerning varieties of war captivity and to apply them to ongoing conflicts of the 21st century... Excellent transdiciplinary, transnational scholarship. Clearly written, but not for casual readers." - G.H. Davis, Choice, March 2011
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1: Sibylle Scheipers: Introduction: Prisoners in War
Part I: The Emergence of Legal and Ethical Standards Before the Second World War
2: Frédéric Mégret: A Cautionary Tale from the Crusades? War and Prisoners in Conditions of Normative Incommensurability
3: Peter H. Wilson: Prisoners in Early Modern European Warfare
4: Stephen C. Neff: Prisoners of War in International Law: The Nineteenth Century
5: Alan Kramer: Prisoners in The First World War
6: Neville Wylie: The 1929 Prisoners of War Convention and the Building of the Inter-War Prisoner of War Regime
Part II: Prisoners in Regular Conflicts - The Second World War
7: Bob Moore: The Treatment of Prisoners of War In The Western European Theatre of War 1939-1945
8: Rüdiger Overmans: The Treatment of Prisoners of War In The Eastern European Theatre of Operations 1941-1956
9: Philip Towle: Japanese Culture and The Treatment of Prisoners of War In The Asian-Pacific War
Part III: Detainees in Irregular Conflicts
10: Isabel V. Hull: Prisoners in Colonial Warfare: The Imperial German Example
11: Raphaëlle Branche: The French in Algeria: Can There Be Prisoners of War In A 'Domestic' Operation?
12: Huw Bennett: Detention and Interrogation In Northern Ireland 1969-1975
13: Bettina Renz: The Status and Treatment of Detainees in Russia's Chechen Campaigns
Part IV: Contemporary Problems and Challenges
14: Chia Lehnardt: Private Military Personnel as Prisoners Of War
15: Matthew Happold: Child Prisoners in War
16: John B. Bellinger III: Legal Issues Related To Armed Conflict with Non-State Groups
17: Adam Roberts: Detainees: Misfits in Peace And War
18: David Cole: Outsourcing Terror: Extraordinary Rendition and The Necessity For Extraterritorial Protection of Human Rights
19: Alia Brahimi: Terrorist Beheadings: Politics and Reciprocity
20: Sibylle Scheipers: Conclusion: Prisoners and Detainees in Current and Future Military Operations
Index
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