The metamorphosis of war / / edited by Avery Plaw.

• Superior document: At the interface, probing the bondaries ; v. 80
• TeilnehmendeR: Plaw, Avery.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries 80.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (267 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

In the last few decades the practice, purpose and the very language of warfare have been radically transformed. This volume mobilizes the resources of a range of disciplines across the social sciences and humanities in combination with the insights of military practitioners to understand the metamorphosis of war.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Fighting For Peace: From the Social War to Armed Democracy / Nick Mansfield -- Foucault and the Continuation of War / Jason Edwards -- Why There is No Such Thing as Political Terrorism / Bob Brecher -- The Legality of Targeted Killing as an Instrument of War: The Case of the US Targeting of Qaed Salim Sinan al-Harethi / Avery Plaw -- Insecurity by Impreciseness: Towards a Specific Concept of Security / Benjamin Rampp -- Towards an Enhanced Understanding of Diplomacy as the Business of Peace / Stuart Murray -- The Changing Ottoman Perception of War: From the Foundation of the Empire to Its Disintegration / Mustafa Serdar Palabιyιk -- Youth and Peace: Alternative Voices in Lebanon / Pamela Chrabieh Badine -- The Correspondent’s Experience of War / Tim Markham -- ‘Like a Phoenix from the Ashes’: The IRA as a Multi-Generational Movement and Its Relevance for the War on Terror / Timothy D. Hoyt -- Tiger, Tiger Burning Bright / Graeme Goldsworthy , Toby Chesson and Erica Pasini -- From Manifest Degradation to Latent Anticipation: Military Boredom in the First World War and Afghanistan / Bård Mæland.