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The Changing Character of War
Edited by Hew Strachan and Sibylle Scheipers
576 pages
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234x156mm
978-0-19-959673-7
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Hardback
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12 May 2011
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- Brings together leading experts in the field
- Unites scholars from the disciplines of history, politics, law, and philosophy
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.Readership: Scholars and students of war studies, security studies, international history, political philosophy, and international law
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Edited by Hew Strachan, Chichele Professor of the History of War and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford; Director of the Oxford Programme on the Changing Character of War, and Sibylle Scheipers, Lecturer in International Relations, University of St Andrews and Senior Research Associate, Changing Character of War Programme, Oxford University 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.
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. Contributors:
Hew Strachan
Sibylle Scheipers
Tarak Barkawi
Mats Berdal
Alia Brahimi
Shane Brighton
Michael Broers
Audrey Kurth Cronin
Gerard J. DeGroot
Anne Deighton
Antulio J Echevarria II
Azar Gat
Guy S. Goodwin-Gill
Thomas Hippler
Bruce Hoffman
Stathis N.
Kalyvas
Kimberly Marten
Patricia Owens
David Parrott
Sarah Percy
William Reno
Adam Roberts
David Rodin
Henry Shue
Peter W. Singer
Sibylle Scheipers
Uwe Steinhoff
David J.B. Trim
Gil-li Vardi
Pascal Vennesson
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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
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