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THE CHANGING CHARACTER OF WAR

EDITED BY HEW STRACHAN AND SIBYLLE SCHEIPERS

OXFORD
UNIVERSITY PRESS

Contents
List of Contributors Introduction: The Changing Character of War Hew Strachan and Sibylle Scheipers
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Part I: The Need for a Historical Perspective: What Has Changed? 1. The Changing Character of War Azar Gat 2. Had a Distinct Template for a 'Western Way of War' been Established before 1800? David Parrott 3. Changes in War: The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars Michael Broers 4. The Change from Within Gil-li Vardi 5. 'Killing is Easy': The Atomic Bomb and the Temptation of Terror Gerard J. DeGroot 6. The 'New Wars' Thesis Revisited Mats Berdal 7. What is Really Changing? Change and Continuity in Global Terrorism Audrey Kurth Cronin Part II: The Purpose of Wan Why Go to War? 8. Humanitarian Intervention D. J. B. Trim 9. Democracy and War in the Strategic Thought ofGiulioDouhet Thomas Hippler 151 27

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11. The Changing Character of Civil Wars, 1800-2009 Stathis N. Kalyvas 12. Crime versus War William Reno Part III: The Changing Identities of Combatants: Who Fights? 13. War without the People Pascal Vennesson 14. The Changing Character of Private Force Sarah Percy 15. Who Fights?A Comparative Demographic Depiction of Terrorists and Insurgents in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

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16. Warlords Kimberly Marten 17. The European Union, Multilateralism, and the Use of Force Anne Deighton 18. Robots at War: The New Battlefield P. W. Singer Part IV: The Changing Identities of Non-combatants 19. The Civilian in Modern War Adam Roberts 20. Killing Civilians Uwe Steinhoff 21. The Status and Protections of Prisoners of War and Detainees Sibylle Scheipers 22. The Challenge of the Child Soldier Guy S. Goodwin-Gill 357 381

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Contents Part V: The Ideas which Enable us to Understand War 23. American Strategic Culture: Problems and Prospects Antulio J. Echevarria II 24. Morality and Law in War David Rodin 25. Target-Selection Norms, Torture Norms, and Growing US Permissiveness Henry Shue 26. The Return of Realism? War and Changing Concepts of the Political Patricia Owens 27. Strategy in the Twenty-First Century Hew Strachan Conclusion: Absent War Studies? War, Knowledge, and Critique Tarak Barkawi and Shane Brighton Index

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