Civilians And Modern War

Author : Daniel Rothbart,Karina Korostelina,Mohammed Cherkaoui
Publisher : War, Conflict and Ethics
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1138110485

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Civilians and Modern War by Daniel Rothbart,Karina Korostelina,Mohammed Cherkaoui Pdf

This book explores the issue of civilian devastation in modern warfare, focusing on the complex processes that effectively establish civilians� identity in times of war. Underpinning the physicality of war�s tumult are structural forces that create landscapes of civilian vulnerability. Such forces operate in four sectors of modern warfare: nationalistic ideology, state-sponsored militaries, global media, and international institutions. Each sector promotes its own constructions of civilian identity in relation to militant combatants: constructions that prove lethal to the civilian noncombatant who lacks political power and decision-making capacity with regards to their own survival. Civilians and Modern War provides a critical overview of the plight of civilians in war, examining the political and normative underpinnings of the decisions, actions, policies, and practices of major sectors of war. The contributors seek to undermine the �tunnelling effect� of the militaristic framework regarding the experiences of noncombatants. This book will be of much interest to students of war and conflict studies, ethics, conflict resolution, and IR/Security Studies.

Author : Daniel Rothbart,Karina Korostelina,Mohammed Cherkaoui
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136333392

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Civilians and Modern War by Daniel Rothbart,Karina Korostelina,Mohammed Cherkaoui Pdf

This book explores the issue of civilian devastation in modern warfare, focusing on the complex processes that effectively establish civilians’ identity in times of war. Underpinning the physicality of war’s tumult are structural forces that create landscapes of civilian vulnerability. Such forces operate in four sectors of modern warfare: nationalistic ideology, state-sponsored militaries, global media, and international institutions. Each sector promotes its own constructions of civilian identity in relation to militant combatants: constructions that prove lethal to the civilian noncombatant who lacks political power and decision-making capacity with regards to their own survival. Civilians and Modern War provides a critical overview of the plight of civilians in war, examining the political and normative underpinnings of the decisions, actions, policies, and practices of major sectors of war. The contributors seek to undermine the ‘tunnelling effect’ of the militaristic framework regarding the experiences of noncombatants. This book will be of much interest to students of war and conflict studies, ethics, conflict resolution, and IR/Security Studies.

Author : Richard English
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199607891

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Modern War: A Very Short Introduction by Richard English Pdf

Warfare is one of the most dangerous threat faced by modern humanity. It is also one of the key influences that has shaped the politics, economics, and culture of the modern world. This book explores the assumptions we make about modern warfare and considers what we can learn from the historical reality.

Author : Michael L. Gross
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521866156

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Moral Dilemmas of Modern War by Michael L. Gross Pdf

A practical guide for policy makers, military officers, students, and anyone else interested in asymmetric conflicts.

Author : Alex Dowdall,John Horne
Publisher : Springer
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137585325

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Civilians Under Siege from Sarajevo to Troy by Alex Dowdall,John Horne Pdf

This edited volume analyses siege warfare as a discrete type of military engagement, in the face of which civilians are particularly vulnerable. Siege warfare is a form of combat that has usually had devastating effects on civilian populations. From the near-contemporary Siege of Sarajevo to the real and mythical sieges of the ancient Mediterranean, this has been a recurring type of military engagement which, through bombardment, starvation, disease and massacre, places non-combatants at the heart of battle. To date, however, there has been little recognition of the effects of siege warfare on civilians. This edited volume addresses this gap. Using a distinctive regressive method, it begins with the present and works backwards, avoiding teleological interpretations that suggest the targeting of civilians in war is a modern phenomenon. Its contributors interrogate civilians’ roles during sieges, both as victims and active participants; the laws and customs of siege warfare; its place in historical memory, and the ways civilian survivors have dealt with trauma. Its scope and content ensure that the collection is essential reading for all those interested in the place of civilians in war. Chapter 2 of this book is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com

Author : Brian Steed
Publisher : Presidio Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015056223228

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Armed Conflict by Brian Steed Pdf

Analysis of five battles, one each in Korea, Vietnam, the Falklands, the Persian Gulf, and Somalia. Offers insights into how wars will be fought in the 21st century. American perspective.

Author : Benjamin Perrin
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774822329

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Modern Warfare by Benjamin Perrin Pdf

To bridge the widening gap between the theory and practice of the law, Modern Warfare brings together both scholars and practitioners who offer unique, and often divergent, perspectives on four key challenges to the law's legitimacy: how to ensure compliance among non-state armed groups; the proliferation of private military and security companies and their use by humanitarian organizations; tensions between the idea of humanitarian space and counterinsurgency doctrines; and the phenomenon of urban violence. The contributors do not simply consider settled legal standards - they widen the scope to include first principles, related bodies of law, humanitarian policy, and the latest studies on the prevention and mitigation of violence."--Pub. desc.

Author : Andrew Barros,Martin Thomas
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108429658

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The Civilianization of War by Andrew Barros,Martin Thomas Pdf

Why are civilian populations targeted in modern wars despite laws and ethical claims insisting on civilian protections? This book offers answers.

Author : Erica Charters,Professor Eve Rosenhaft,Hannah Smith
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781781386347

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Civilians and War in Europe 1618–1815 by Erica Charters,Professor Eve Rosenhaft,Hannah Smith Pdf

This interdisciplinary volume examines the relationship between civilians and war in Europe in the period 1618 to 1815, challenging familiar narratives of the rise of modern war and the nature of early modern warfare.

Author : Alan L. Grey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351528313

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Civilian Victims in War by Alan L. Grey Pdf

The status of the civilian today is that of a calculated casualty, to die immediately or after agonizing suffering. The civilian is also a hostage in the political power struggle, since his continued safety depends upon the decision or even impulse of his leaders. This is true if he is a citizen of a major power, or if he lives elsewhere in unstable social and political environments. Hartigan's book is a unique effort to deal with a mass, but hidden problem: the status of the civilian non-combatant in conditions of armed conflict.Civilian Victims in War fills the gaps in our knowledge of the origins of civilian immunity, so that a full evaluation of the principle's continued worth may be made. The book reviews the concepts of noncombatants, civilian immunity, how it arose from need and intuition and developed into legal practice. The volume focuses on the development of this concept in the Western tradition, not because civilian immunity was absent in Asia or Africa, but because its present formulation owes its origin and elaboration to European custom, practice, and thought.Civilian Victims in War is the first book to deal with the central theme of the innocent non-combatant. Hartigan seeks to pursue this subject in greater depth, and asks the intelligent layman to reconsider his or her options in the face of modern warfare. He touches on many subjects in this work which will spark interest with the general public and policy personnel, those who should recognize themselves as civilians and see this book as their tragic history.

Author : Igor Primoratz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317074342

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Protecting Civilians During Violent Conflict by Igor Primoratz Pdf

There is almost unanimous agreement that civilians should be protected from the direct effects of violent conflict, and that the distinction between combatant and non-combatant should be respected. But what are the fundamental ethical questions about civilian immunity? Are new styles of conflict making this distinction redundant? Eloquently combining theory and practice, leading scholars from the fields of political science, law and philosophy have been brought together to provide an essential overview of some of the major ethical, legal and political issues with regard to protecting civilians caught up in modern inter- and intra-state conflicts. In doing so, they examine what is being done, and what can be done, to make soldiers more aware of their responsibilities in this area under international law and the ethics of war, and more able to respond appropriately to the challenges that will confront them in the field. 'Protecting Civilians During Violent Conflict' presents a clear-eyed look at the dilemmas facing regular combatants as they confront enemies in the modern battlespace, and especially the complications arising from the new styles of conflict where enemy and civilian populations merge.

Author : Hugo Slim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010-07
Category : Civil-military relations
ISBN : 0231700377

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Killing Civilians by Hugo Slim Pdf

When civilians suffer in war, it is often a deliberate act. Massacres, rape, displacement, famine, and disease are the strategic decisions of political and military leaders who make civilians their targets in order to gain the upper hand in battle. Yet there still exists the precious and fragile belief-ingrained in modern international law-that unarmed and innocent people should be protected in war, even if, in practice, the principle of civil immunity is often ignored or rejected. Hoping to rectify this injustice, Hugo Slim uses detailed historical and contemporary examples to reveal the many ways civilians suffer in war. A leading commentator on international humanitarian action and the protection of civilians in war, Slim analyzes the anti-civilian ideologies that encourage and perpetuate suffering and exposes the exploitation of moral ambiguity that is used to sanction extreme hostility. At what point does killing civilians become part of winning a war? Why are some methods of killing used while others are avoided? Bolstering his claims with hard fact, Slim argues that civilian casualties are not only morally reprehensible but also bad military science. His book is a clarion call for action and a passionate defense of civil immunity, a concept that is more urgent and necessary today than ever before.

Author : Eli Berman,Joseph H. Felter,Jacob N. Shapiro
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691204017

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Small Wars, Big Data by Eli Berman,Joseph H. Felter,Jacob N. Shapiro Pdf

How a new understanding of warfare can help the military fight today's conflicts more effectively. The way wars are fought has changed starkly over the past sixty years. International military campaigns used to play out between large armies at central fronts. Today's conflicts find major powers facing rebel insurgencies that deploy elusive methods, from improvised explosives to terrorist attacks. Small Wars, Big Data presents a transformative understanding of these contemporary confrontations and how they should be fought. The authors show that a revolution in the study of conflict--enabled by vast data, rich qualitative evidence, and modern methods--yields new insights into terrorism, civil wars, and foreign interventions. Modern warfare is not about struggles over territory but over people; civilians--and the information they might choose to provide--can turn the tide at critical junctures. The authors draw practical lessons from the past two decades of conflict in locations ranging from Latin America and the Middle East to Central and Southeast Asia. Building an information-centric understanding of insurgencies, the authors examine the relationships between rebels, the government, and civilians. This approach serves as a springboard for exploring other aspects of modern conflict, including the suppression of rebel activity, the role of mobile communications networks, the links between aid and violence, and why conventional military methods might provide short-term success but undermine lasting peace. Ultimately the authors show how the stronger side can almost always win the villages, but why that does not guarantee winning the war. Small Wars, Big Data provides groundbreaking perspectives for how small wars can be better strategized and favorably won to the benefit of the local population.

Author : Roger Trinquier
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : France
ISBN : 9781428916890

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Modern Warfare by Roger Trinquier Pdf

Author : C. McKeogh
Publisher : Springer
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2002-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781403907462

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Innocent Civilians by C. McKeogh Pdf

Why is it that soldiers may be killed in war but civilians may not be killed? By tracing the evolution of the principle of non-combatant immunity in Western thought from its medieval religious origins to its modern legal status, Colm McKeogh attempts to answer this question. In doing so he highlights the unsuccessful attempts to reconcile warfare with our civilization's most fundamental principles of justice.