
The Changing Character of War
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- 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
- Conclusion: Absent War Studies? War, Knowledge, and Critique
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