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Jacobson, David

 
9781439913123: Transformations of Warfare in the Contemporary World
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1439913129 ISBN 13 : 9781439913123
Editeur : Temple University Press,U.S., 2016

Synopsis

Today's warfare has moved away from being an event between massed national populations and toward small numbers of combatants using high-tech weaponry. The editors of and contributors to the timely collection Transformations of Warfare in the Contemporary World show that this shift reflects changes in the technological, strategic, ideological, and ethical realms.

The essays in this volume discuss:

-the waning connection between citizenship and soldiering;

-the shift toward more reconstructive than destructive activities by militaries;

-the ethics of irregular or asymmetrical warfare;

-the role of novel techniques of identification in military settings;

-the stress on precision associated with targeted killings and kidnappings;

-the uses of the social sciences in contemporary warfare.

In his concluding remarks, David Jacobson explores the extent to which the contemporary transformation of warfare is a product of a shift in the character of the combatants themselves.

Contributors include: Ariel Colonomos, Roberto J. González, Travis R. Hall, Saskia Hooiveld, Rob Johnson, Colonel C. Anthony Pfaff, Ian Roxborough, and the editors

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À propos de l'auteur

John C. Torpey is Director of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, and author of Making Whole What Has Been Smashed: On Reparations Politics and The Invention of the Passport: Surveillance, Citizenship, and the State.

David Jacobson is the Founding Director of the Global Initiative on Civil Society and Conflict at the University of South Florida, and author of both Of Virgins and Martyrs: Women and Sexuality in Global Conflict and Rights Across Borders: Immigration and the Decline of Citizenship.

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Éditeur
Temple University Press,U.S.
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1439913129
ISBN 13 
9781439913123
Reliure
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Nombre de pages
222
Éditeur
Torpey John C.
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