Warfare and Armed Conflicts

Warfare and Armed Conflicts

Author: Micheal Clodfelter

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2017-04-24

Total Pages: 825

ISBN-13: 1476625859

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In its revised and updated fourth edition, this exhaustive encyclopedia provides a record of casualties of war from the last five centuries through 2015, with new statistical and analytical information. Figures include casualties from global terrorism, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the fight against the Islamic State. New entries cover an additional 20 armed conflicts between 1492 and 2007 not included in previous editions. Arranged roughly by century and subdivided by world region, chronological entries include the name and dates of the conflict, precursor events, strategies and details, the outcome and its aftermath.


Warfare and Armed Conflicts

Warfare and Armed Conflicts

Author: Micheal Clodfelter

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2008-07-02

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780786433193

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This completely updated and revised edition of Warfare and Armed Conflicts presents a record of casualties from the last five centuries. Additionally, ongoing conflicts that began before 2001 and that were covered in the second edition are now covered through 2007. Events and conflicts that broke out since 2001, including 9/11 and global terrorism, Iraq, Afghanistan, Israel-Hezbollah, are extensively covered, too. To make Warfare and Armed Conflicts the most comprehensive and accurate statistical compendium of modern armed conflict available, the author has incorporated newly discovered data, offering more information for many older conflicts. Arranged roughly by century and then subdivided by world region, the entries proceed chronologically and vary from paragraph to chapter-length. Each entry provides the name and date of the conflict, precursor events, strategies and details, the outcome and its impact.


Bioethics and Armed Conflict

Bioethics and Armed Conflict

Author: Michael Gross

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2006-06-16

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 0262572265

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An analysis of medical ethics during war and the inherent conflict between the principles of bioethics and the morally legitimate but competing demands of military necessity.


An Introduction to the International Law of Armed Conflicts

An Introduction to the International Law of Armed Conflicts

Author: Robert Kolb

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2008-09-17

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 1847314600

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This book provides a modern and basic introduction to a branch of international law constantly gaining in importance in international life, namely international humanitarian law (the law of armed conflict). It is constructed in a way suitable for self-study. The subject-matters are discussed in self-contained chapters, allowing each to be studied independently of the others. Among the subject-matters discussed are, inter alia: the Relationship between jus ad bellum / jus in bello; Historical Evolution of IHL; Basic Principles and Sources of IHL; Martens Clause; International and Non-International Armed Conflicts; Material, Spatial, Personal and Temporal Scope of Application of IHL; Special Agreements under IHL; Role of the ICRC; Targeting; Objects Specifically Protected against Attack; Prohibited Weapons; Perfidy; Reprisals; Assistance of the Wounded and Sick; Definition of Combatants; Protection of Prisoners of War; Protection of Civilians; Occupied Territories; Protective Emblems; Sea Warfare; Neutrality; Implementation of IHL.


Civilians and Modern War

Civilians and Modern War

Author: Daniel Rothbart

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-08-06

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 1136333398

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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.


International Law and the Classification of Conflicts

International Law and the Classification of Conflicts

Author: Elizabeth Wilmshurst

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2012-08-02

Total Pages: 568

ISBN-13: 0191632236

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This book comprises contributions by leading experts in the field of international humanitarian law on the subject of the categorisation or classification of armed conflict. It is divided into two sections: the first aims to provide the reader with a sound understanding of the legal questions surrounding the classification of hostilities and its consequences; the second includes ten case studies that examine practice in respect of classification. Understanding how classification operates in theory and practice is a precursor to identifying the relevant rules that govern parties to hostilities. With changing forms of armed conflict which may involve multi-national operations, transnational armed groups and organized criminal gangs, the need for clarity of the law is all-important. The case studies selected for analysis are Northern Ireland, DRC, Colombia, Afghanistan (from 2001), Gaza, South Ossetia, Iraq (from 2003), Lebanon (2006), the so-called war against Al-Qaeda, and future trends. The studies explore the legal consequences of classification particularly in respect of the use of force, detention in armed conflict, and the relationship between human rights law and international humanitarian law. The practice identified in the case studies allows the final chapter to draw conclusions as to the state of the law on classification.


Peace and War

Peace and War

Author: Kalevi J. Holsti

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1991-04-26

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 9780521399296

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Professor Holsti examines the origins of war and the foundations of peace of the last 350 years.


The Law of Armed Conflict

The Law of Armed Conflict

Author: Howard M. Hensel

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 9780754671138

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Modern armed conflict raises serious questions concerning the relationship between the law of armed conflict and the reality of contemporary warfare. This engaging volume addresses some of the contemporary normative and legal challenges and problems associated with the application of the concepts of just war, the just conduct of war, and the law of armed conflict to 21st century warfare.


Climate Change and Armed Conflict

Climate Change and Armed Conflict

Author: James R. Lee

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2009-09-10

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 1135211639

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This book examines the way that climate change and conflict have shaped human experience historically, and forecasts future trends and possible opportunities for changing the historical path we are on.