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
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.
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