The Ashgate Research Companion To War

Author : John Buckley,George Kassimeris
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317042488

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The Ashgate Research Companion to Modern Warfare by John Buckley,George Kassimeris Pdf

This research collection provides a comprehensive study of important strategic, cultural, ethical and philosophical aspects of modern warfare. It offers a refreshing analysis of key issues in modern warfare, not only in terms of the conduct of war and the wider complexities and ramifications of modern conflict, but also concepts of war, the crucial shifts in the structure of warfare, and the morality and legality of the use of force in a post-9/11 age.

Author : Hall Gardner,Oleg Kobtzeff
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 761 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-23
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781317041108

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The Ashgate Research Companion to War by Hall Gardner,Oleg Kobtzeff Pdf

Many different social scientists have been challenged by the origins of wars, their immediate causes and the mechanisms leading to the breakdown of peaceful relations. Many have speculated whether conflicts were avoidable and whether alternative policies might have prevented conflict. The Ashgate Research Companion to War provides contributions from a number of theorists and historians with a focus on long term, systemic conflicts. The problèmatique is introduced by the Editors highlighting the need for interdisciplinary approaches to the study of war as a global phenomenon. The following 29 essays provide a comprehensive study guide in four sections: Part I explicates differing theories as to the origins of war under the general concept of 'polemology'. Part II analyzes significant conflicts from the Peloponnesian wars to World War II. Part III examines the ramifications of Cold War and post-Cold War conflict. Part IV looks at long cycles of systemic conflict, and speculates, in part, whether another global war is theoretically possible, and if so, whether it can be averted. This comprehensive volume brings us a much needed analysis of wars throughout the ages, their origins, their consequences, and their relationship to the present. A valuable understanding that is ideal for social scientists from a variety of backgrounds.

Author : Donald W. Boose
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317041498

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The Ashgate Research Companion to the Korean War by Donald W. Boose Pdf

This essential companion provides a comprehensive study of the literature on the causes, course, and consequences of the Korean War, 1950-1953. Aimed primarily at readers with a special interest in military history and contemporary conflict studies, the authors summarize and analyze the key research issues in what for years was known as the 'Forgotten War.' The book comprises three main thematic parts, each with chapters ranging across a variety of crucial topics covering the background, conduct, clashes, and outcome of the Korean War. The first part sets the historical stage, with chapters focusing on the main participants. The second part provides details on the tactics, equipment, and logistics of the belligerents. Part III covers the course of the war, with each chapter addressing a key stage of the fighting in chronological order. The enormous increase in writings on the Korean War during the last thirty years, following the release of key primary source documents, has revived and energized the interest of scholars. This essential reference work not only provides an overview of recent research, but also assesses what impact this has had on understanding the war.

Author : Olaf Asbach,Peter Schröder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648
ISBN : 1315613662

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The Ashgate Research Companion to the Thirty Years' War by Olaf Asbach,Peter Schröder Pdf

Author : Olaf Asbach,Peter Schröder
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317041351

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The Ashgate Research Companion to the Thirty Years' War by Olaf Asbach,Peter Schröder Pdf

The Thirty Years’ War (1618-1648) remains a puzzling and complex subject for students and scholars alike. This is hardly surprising since it is often contested among historians whether it is actually appropriate to speak of a single war or a series of conflicts. Similarly emphasis is also put on the different motives for going to war, as conflicting religious and political interests were involved. This research companion brings together leading scholars in the field to synthesize the range of existing research on the war, which is still fragmented and divided along national historical lines, and to further explore the complexities of the conflict using an innovative comparative approach. The companion is designed to provide scholars and graduate students with a comprehensive and authoritative overview of research on one of the most destructive conflicts in European history.

Author : Marie Breen-Smyth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317042099

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The Ashgate Research Companion to Political Violence by Marie Breen-Smyth Pdf

Aimed at scholars, students and lay persons interested in peace and conflict studies, The Ashgate Research Companion to Political Violence is a comprehensive resource to understand the principal debates on political violence, a field which is becoming an increasingly important part of courses on peace and conflict. Organized into seven main sections, this volume deals with a wide range of issues covering the following important research areas: · Issues of definition and nomenclature and how contests over these relate to political violence. · Theoretical frameworks and methods for understanding and researching political violence. · Motivations and goals of those who use political violence. · The various forms of political violence. · Perspectives on countering political violence, by state and non-state actors. · Why and how political violence ends. · The aftermath of political violence. Contributions by leading scholars in the field provide an authoritative guide and source book on political violence for the scholar, the researcher and the informed general reader.

Author : Tom Christensen,Per Lægreid
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317042365

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The Ashgate Research Companion to New Public Management by Tom Christensen,Per Lægreid Pdf

This collection provides a comprehensive, state-of-the art review of current research in the field of New Public Management (NPM) reform. Aimed primarily at a readership with a special interest in contemporary public-sector reforms, The Ashgate Research Companion to New Public Management offers a refreshing and up-to-date analysis of key issues of modern administrative reforms. This volume comprises a general introduction and twenty-nine chapters divided into six thematic sessions, each with chapters ranging across a variety of crucial topics in the field of New Public Management reforms and beyond. The principal themes to be addressed are: ¢

Author : Tuija Pulkkinen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317041436

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The Ashgate Research Companion to the Politics of Democratization in Europe by Tuija Pulkkinen Pdf

'Democratization' is a concept often used in academic book titles, yet not many of them deal with the initial breakthrough of democratization. This research companion presents an alternative view to the widespread assumption that Western democracies should be the normative reference for the study of democratization elsewhere. Rather, it questions the universal validity of such an assumption by searching the history of European politics and by paying specific attention to the struggles of democratization accomplished outside Western Europe. The authors apply a comparative approach to analyzing debates in the primary sources in a number of countries and languages and situate the results into a broader European context. Focusing on European democratization from different historical and analytical perspectives, they discuss the politics, concepts and histories involved in democratization as a complex of changes that has altered the conditions of political action and debate in the continent for the past two centuries.

Author : James Turner Johnson,Eric D. Patterson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-23
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781317042617

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The Ashgate Research Companion to Military Ethics by James Turner Johnson,Eric D. Patterson Pdf

This Companion provides scholars and graduates, serving and retired military professionals, members of the diplomatic and policy communities concerned with security affairs and legal professionals who deal with military law and with international law on armed conflicts, with a comprehensive and authoritative state-of-the-art review of current research in the area of military ethics. Topics in this volume reflect both perennial and pressing contemporary issues in the ethics of the use of military force and are written by established professionals and respected commentators. Subjects are organized by three major perspectives on the use of military force: the decision whether to use military force in a given context, the matter of right conduct in the use of such force, and ethical responsibilities beyond the end of an armed conflict. Treatment of issues in each of these sections takes account of both present-day moral challenges and new approaches to these and the historical tradition of just war. Military ethics, as it has developed, has been a particularly Western concern and this volume reflects that reality. However, in a globalized world, awareness of similarities and differences between Western approaches and those of other major cultures is essential. For this reason the volume concludes with chapters on ethics and war in the Islamic, Chinese, and Indian traditions, with the aim of integrating reflection on these approaches into the broad consideration of military ethics provided by this volume.

Author : Alexandra Bamji,Geert H. Janssen,Mary Laven
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 597 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317041610

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The Ashgate Research Companion to the Counter-Reformation by Alexandra Bamji,Geert H. Janssen,Mary Laven Pdf

'In the last two decades, the history of the Counter-Reformation has been stretched and re-shaped in numerous directions. Reflecting the variety and innovation that characterize studies of early modern Catholicism today, this volume incorporates topics as diverse as life cycle and community, science and the senses, the performing and visual arts, material objects and print culture, war and the state, sacred landscapes and urban structures. Moreover, it challenges the conventional chronological parameters of the Counter-Reformation and introduces the reader to the latest research on global Catholicism. The Ashgate Research Companion to the Counter-Reformation presents a comprehensive examination of recent scholarship on early modern Catholicism in its many guises. It examines how the Tridentine reforms inspired conflict and conversion, and evaluates lives and identities, spirituality, culture and religious change. This wide-ranging and original research guide is a unique resource for scholars and students of European and transnational history.

Author : James Turner Johnson,Eric Patterson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Just war doctrine
ISBN : 1315613247

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The Ashgate Research Companion to Military Ethics by James Turner Johnson,Eric Patterson Pdf

Author : Patrick Hayden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317043539

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The Ashgate Research Companion to Ethics and International Relations by Patrick Hayden Pdf

While skepticism about the role of moral considerations in international politics has been influential within the discipline of international relations (IR), those writing on topics such as war, peace, rights and trade up until the twentieth century took seriously the importance of ethical values and moral debates. The 1990s and 2000s have seen a substantial growth of attention to the ways in which IR conceives and analyzes themes of an ethical nature, and how issues, problems and policies involving ethics are addressed by a variety of actors within the international system. This indispensable research companion widens the perspective from 'ethics and international relations' to 'ethics in international relations', redressing the (mis)perception that ethical concepts, principles, norms and rules are not in part constitutive of the international system and the agents acting within that system. Necessarily cross-disciplinary, expertise is drawn from IR and also philosophy, political theory, religious studies, history and law, making this an ideal volume for any library reference collection.

Author : Mikhail A. Molchanov
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 645 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317042129

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The Ashgate Research Companion to Political Leadership by Mikhail A. Molchanov Pdf

Discussing the major theories of political leadership with a focus on contemporary challenges that political leaders face worldwide, this research companion provides a comprehensive and up-to-date resource for an international readership. The editors combine empirical and normative approaches to emphasize the centrality of political culture, as well as the limits of culture and the universal demands of innovative adaptation. The volume examines: ¢

Author : Professor Doris Wastl-Walter
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781409490166

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The Routledge Research Companion to Border Studies by Professor Doris Wastl-Walter Pdf

This comprehensive volume brings together a multidisciplinary team of leading scholars to provide an authoritative, state-of-the-art review of all aspects of borders and border research. It is global in scope and embraces the more traditional strands of the field including geopolitics, migration and territorial identities, and also recently emerging topics such as the role of borders in a seemingly borderless world; creating neighbourhoods, and border enforcement in the post-9/11 era.

Author : Professor Matthew Jefferies
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781409435518

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The Ashgate Research Companion to Imperial Germany by Professor Matthew Jefferies Pdf

This companion is a significant addition to the body of scholarship on Germany’s imperial era with the emphasis very much on the present and future. Questions of continuity remain a vital line of historical enquiry and while it may have been short-lived, the Kaiserreich remains central to modern German and European history. The collection will provide a lively take on this fascinating period of history, from Germany’s unification in 1871 until the end of World War I.