Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Strachan & Scheipers: The Changing Character of War

Hew Strachan (Univ. of Oxford - History) & Sibylle Scheipers (Univ. of St. Andrews - International Relations) have published The Changing Character of War (Oxford Univ. Press 2011). Contents include:
  • Hew Strachan & Sibylle Scheipers, Introduction: The Changing Character of War
  • Azar Gat, The Changing Character of War
  • David Parrott, Had a Distinct Template for a 'Western Way of War' Been Established Before 1800?
  • Michael Broers, Changes in War: The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
  • Gil-li Vardi, The Change from Within
  • Gerard J. DeGroot, 'Killing is Easy': The Atomic Bomb and the Temptation of Terror
  • Mats Berdal, The 'New Wars' Thesis Revisited
  • Audrey Kurth Cronin, What is Really Changing? Change and Continuity in Global Terrorism
  • David J.B. Trim, Humanitarian intervention
  • Thomas Hippler, Democracy and War in the Strategic Thought of Giulio Douhet
  • Alia Brahimi, Religion in the War on Terror
  • Stathis N. Kalyvas, The Changing Character of Civil Wars, 1800-2009
  • William Reno, Crime versus War
  • Pascal Vennesson, War Without the People
  • Sarah Percy, The Changing Character of Private Force
  • Bruce Hoffman, Who Fights?-A Comparative Demographic Depiction of Terrorists and Insurgents in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries
  • Kimberly Marten, Warlords
  • Anne Deighton, The European Union, Multilateralism, and the Use of Force
  • Peter W. Singer, Robots at War: The New Battlefield
  • Adam Roberts, The Civilian in Modern War
  • Uwe Steinhoff, Killing Civilians
  • Sibylle Scheipers, The Status and Protections of Prisoners of War and Detainees
  • Guy S. Goodwin-Gill, The Challenge of the Child Soldier
  • Antulio J Echevarria II, American Strategic Culture: Problems and Prospects
  • David Rodin, Morality and Law in War
  • Henry Shue, Target-selection Norms, Torture Norms, and Growing US Permissiveness
  • Patricia Owens, The Return of Realism? War and Changing Concepts of the Political
  • Hew Strachan, Strategy in the Twenty-first Century
  • Tarak Barkawi & Shane Brighton, Conclusion: Absent War Studies? War, Knowledge, and Critique