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Civilians and Modern War: Armed Conflict and the Ideology of Violence - A new book by Daniel Rothbart, Karina Korostelina, and Mohammed Cherkaoui
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.
A full list of chapter Abstracts is available here
Chapters by S-CAR Contributors
Civilians Overshadowed by Soldiers: Faceless Victims of the
Public Media
Israeli Soldiers' Perceptions of Palestinians Civilians during the 2009 Gaza War
By Neta Oren
The Role of Civilians in American War Ideology
Civilians Under the Law: Inequality, Intersectionality, and Irony
Preventing Genocide: The Quest for System Response
By Andrea Bartoli and Tetsushi Ogata
Civilians, Pundits and Mediatized Ideology
Double Victims: the Recruitment and Treatment of Child Soldiers in Chechnya
The Place and Plight of Civilians in Modern War
By Daniel Rothbart, Karina Korostelina, and Mohammed Cherkaoui
The Politics of Civilian Identity
By Daniel Rothbart, Karina Korostelina, Mohammed Cherkaoui
Keep an eye out for the more affordable Paperback edition coming soon!
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Comment by Abshir Askar mohamed on April 6, 2012 at 9:25am -
very important book of conflict history idealogy
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