Changing Character of War Programme - Information

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Changing Character of War Programme - Recent Publications

Jonathan Bailey

'Contemporary Operations, Reflections On and Of Empire', Institute for Defense Analyses, Alexandria, March 2007.

'Great Power Strategy in Asia. Empire Culture and Trade 1905-2005', Routledge, Abingdon, 2007.

'The Future of Artillery' in the RUSI Journal, August 2006.

'The Pathology of Lessons Learned' in The Past as Prologue, Williamson Murray (Ed.), Cambridge University Press, 2006.

'Field Artillery. Enduring Importance and Future Challenges', Military Technology, Vol.XXIX, Issue 9, Moench Publishing, (Bonn, 2005)

'Over By Christmas. Campaigning, Delusions and Force Requirements', Institute of Land Warfare, Association of the United States Army, Washington DC, (Oct 2005)

Audrey Kurth Cronin

Ending Terrorism: Lessons for Defeating Al-Qaeda, International Institute for Strategic Studies, Adelphi Paper #394 (London: Routledge, April 2008), 86 pages.

'How al-Qaida Ends: The Decline and Demise of Terrorist Groups', in International Security, Summer 2006, Vol. 31, No. 1, Pages 7-48

'Cyber-Mobilization', in Parameters, Summer 2006, Vol. XXXVI, No. 2.

'Russia and Chechnya' in Democracy and Counterterrorism: Lessons from the Past, Robert J. Art & Louise Richardson (Eds.), (Washington, D.C.: United States Institute of Peace Press, 2006)

'Innovations in Twenty-first Century Terrorism', in The Oxford Forum, November 2005.

'Attacking Terrorism: Elements of a Grand Strategy', Georgetown University Press, 2004 (author and co-editor).

'Behind the Curve: Globalization and International Terrorism', in International Security, Vol. 27, No. 3 (Winter 2002/2003), pp. 30-58.

'Rethinking Sovereignty: American Strategy in an Age of Terrorism', in Survival, Vol. 44, No. 2 (Summer 2002), pp. 119-139.

Alexandra Gheciu

'Civilizing the Balkans, Protecting Europe', chapter in The Politics of Protection, Jef Huysmans, Andrew Dobson & Raia Prokhovnik (Eds.), London, Routledge Press, 2006.

NATO in the ‘New Europe’: The Politics of International Socialization after the Cold War (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2005).

'International Institutions as Agents of Socialization?' in International Organization, vol. 59 (Special Issue), Fall 2005, pp.973---1012.

'International Norms, Power, and the Politics of International Administration: The Kosovo Case', in Geopolitics, vol.10 (1), Spring 2005, pp.121---146.

'When the "New Europeans" Encountered the "Old Continent"', chapter in Partners or Rivals?, Matthew Evangelista & Vittorio Emanuele Parsi (Eds.), Milano: Vita e Pensiero and Cornell University Press, 2005.

Guy Goodwin-Gill

'The Politics of Refugee Protection', 27 Refugee Survey Quarterly 8 (2008) http://rsq.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/27/1/8 ]

‘The Extra-Territorial Processing of Claims to Asylum or Protection: The Legal Responsibilities of States and International Organisations’, 9 UTS Law Review 26-40 (2007)read here

The Refugee in International Law, with Jane McAdam, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 3rd edn., 2007 http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199207633.do?keyword=goodwin-gill

Andreas Herberg-Rothe

Clausewitz's Puzzle: the Political Theory of War, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007

Thomas Hippler

Soldats et Citoyens: Naissance du service militaire en France et en Prusse, (Presses Universitaires de France, Paris, 2006). Translated as 'Citizens, Soldiers and National Armies: Military Service in France and Germany 1789-1830' (Routledge, 2007)

'Conscription in the French Restoration: The 1818 Debate on Military Service', in War in History, Volume 13, Number 3, July 2006, pp. 281-298(18)

'État, le citoyen, l'armée: volontariat et contrôle social', in Civils, citoyens-soldats et militaires dans l'État-nation (1789-1815), eds. Annie Crépin, Jean-Pierre Jessenne, Hervé Leuwers. Paris, Société des études robespierristes, 2006, pp. 59-66

'Service militaire et citoyenneté sous la Révolution francaise' in: Citoyens et citoyenneté sous la Révolution francaise, ed. by Raymonde Monnier. Paris, Société des études robespierristes, 2006, pp. 271-278

Daniel Marston

Daniel Marston and Carter Malkasian, Counterinsurgency in Modern Warfare (Botley, Oxford: Osprey, 2008)

Patricia Owens

Books:

Between War and Politics: International Relations and The Thought of Hannah Arendt (Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2007) (Subject of roundtable discussion in International Politics, Vol.45, no.4 (2008), pp.497-530)

The Globalization of World Politics: an Introduction to International Relations (edited with John
Baylis and Steve Smith) (4th edition) (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008)

Security and War: an Introduction (Cambridge: Polity Press, forthcoming)

Journals:

‘Distinctions, Distinctions: "Public" and "Private" Force?' International Affairs, Vol.84, no.5
(2008) forthcoming

‘Fighting Words’, Review of International Studies (2008 forthcoming)

‘Humanity, Sovereignty and the Camps’, International Politics, Vol.45, no.4 (2008), pp.522-530

‘Beyond Strauss, Lies, and the War in Iraq: Hannah Arendt’s Critique of Neoconservativism’,
Review of International Studies, Vol.33, no.2 (2007) pp.265-83

‘Xenophilia, Gender and Sentimental Humanitarianism’, Alternatives: Global, Local,
Political, Vol.29, no.3 (2004), pp.285-304

‘Review Article: Theorising Military Intervention’, International Affairs, Vol.80, no.2 (2004),
pp.355-65

‘Accidents Don’t Just Happen: The Liberal Politics of High-Tech Humanitarian War’,
Millennium: Journal of International Studies, Vol.32, no.3 (2003), pp.595-616

Book chapters:

‘Ethics of War: Critical Alternatives’ in Duncan Bell (ed.) Ethics and World Politics (Oxford: Oxford
University Press, forthcoming 2009)

‘The Ethic of Reality in Hannah Arendt’ in Duncan Bell (ed.) Political Thought and
International Relations: Variations on a Realist Theme (Oxford University Press, 2008), pp.105-121

‘Hannah Arendt, Violence, and the Inescapable Fact of Humanity’, in Anthony F. Lang, Jr
and John Williams (eds.) Hannah Arendt and International Relations: Reading across the Lines (London: Palgrave Press, 2005), pp.41-65

Sarah Percy

Mercenaries: The History of a Norm in International Relations, (2007) Oxford: Oxford University Press

Michael Quinlan

'Just War: The Just War Tradition: Ethics in Modern Warfare', with Charles Guthrie, Bloomsbury Publishing. September 2007

'Deterrence and Deterrability', in Deterrence and the New Global Security Environment, Ian R Kenyon and John Simpson (eds.), Routledge, May 2006.

'India-Pakistan Deterrence Revisited', in Survival, vol. 47, no. 3 (Autumn 2005)

Adam Roberts

'The Equal Application of the Laws of War: A Principle under Pressure', International Review of the Red Cross, Cambridge, vol. 90, no. 872, December 2008, pp. 1-32. An earlier version of this article was published in Just and Unjust Warriors: The Moral and Legal Status of Soldiers, ed. by David Rodin and Henry Shue.

'Doctrine and Reality in Afghanistan', Survival, London, vol. 51, no. 1, February - March 2009, pp. 29-60. Print edition ISSN: 0039-6338. Online ISSN: 1468-2699. Available from the IISS website.

The United Nations Security Council and War: The Evolution of Thought and Practice since 1945, (co-editor and part-author) Vaughan Lowe, Adam Roberts, Jennifer Welsh and Dominik Zaum (eds.), Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2008, xxii + 793 pp.

Selective Security: War and the United Nations Security Council since 1945, with Dominic Zaum, (Adelphi Paper no. 395 of International Institute for Strategic Studies, London), Routledge, Abingdon, July 2008, 93 pp.

‘Torture and Incompetence in the “War on Terror”’, Survival, London, vol. 49, no. 1, spring 2007, pp. 199–212.

‘Intervention: Beyond “Dictatorial Interference”’, in William Bain (ed.), The Empire of Security and the Safety of the People, Routledge, London, 2006, pp. 158-87.

‘The Laws of War’, in Audrey Kurth Cronin and James M. Ludes (eds.), Attacking Terrorism: Elements of a Grand Strategy, Georgetown University Press, Washington DC, 2004, pp. 186-219.

'Transformative Military Occupation: Applying the Laws of War and Human Rights' in American Journal of International Law, Washington DC, vol. 100, no. 3, July 2006, pp. 580–622.

'The ‘War on Terror’ in Historical Perspective', in Survival, vol. 47, no. 2 (Summer 2005).

'Against War', in The Oxford History of Modern War, Charles Townshend (ed.), new updated edition, Oxford University Press, 2005, pp. 317-340.

'Pourquoi et comment intervenir? Jus ad bellum et jus in bello dans le nouveau contexte', and 'La Guerre Contre le Terrorisme', in Justifier la Guerre? De l'humanitaire au contre-terrorisme, Gilles Andréani and Pierre Hassner (eds.), Sciences Po Les Presses, Paris, 2005, pp. 43-68 and 155-76.

'How Terrorist Campaigns End', in The World Today, vol. 61, no. 3, March 2005, pp. 11-13.

'The End of Occupation: Iraq 2004', in International and Comparative Law Quarterly, vol. 54, no. 1, January 2005, pp. 27-48.

`The Laws of War in the War on Terror´, in Fred L. Borch and Paul S. Wilson (eds.), International Law and the War on Terror (US Naval War College, International Law Studies, vol. 79), Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island, 2003, pp. 175-230.

David Rodin

Just and Unjust Warriors: The Moral and Legal Status of Soldiers, (Rodin, David and Shue, Henry), Oxford University Press, Oxford, July 2008

War, Torture and Terrorism: Ethics and War in the 21st Century, Blackwell, September 2007

The Ethics of War: Shared Problems in Different Traditions, (Rodin, David and Sorabji, Richard, Eds.), Ashgate, London, November 2005
'Terrorism Without Intention', in Ethics, Vol. 114, July 2004, 752-771.

'War and Self-Defense', Ethics & International Affairs, Volume 18, No. 1 (Winter 2004), 63-68.

Sibylle Scheipers

'Closing Guantanamo and Investigating the Past: Chances for Renewing Transatlantic Ties?’, Survival, 51 (3), pp. 66-69

'Closing Guantanamo: Is Europe Ready?', Survival, 51 (1), pp.5-12

(ed.) Prisoners in War (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2009)

Negotiating Sovereignty and Human Rights: International Society and the International Criminal Court (Manchester: Manchester University Press, forthcoming).

‘Empowering Africa: normative power in EU-Africa relations’, Journal of European Public Policy 15/4 (2008), pp. 607-623 (co-authored with Daniela Sicurelli).

Coalition Warfare in Afghanistan: Burden-sharing or Disunity?, Chatham House Briefing Paper ISP/ASP 07/01 (2007), London: Chatham House (co-authored with Timo Noetzel).

‘Flüchten oder standhalten’, Internationale Politik 62(9) (2007), pp. 120-125 (co-authored with Timo Noetzel).

Die Nato in Afghanistan. Das Bündnis und die Grenzen seiner Strategiefähigkeit, SWP-Aktuell No. 44 (2007), Berlin: Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (co-authored with Timo Noetzel).

‘Civilization vs Toleration: The new UN Human Rights Council and the normative foundations of the international order’, in Journal of International Relations and Development, 10/3 (2007).

‘Normative Power Europe: A credible utopia?’, Journal of Common Market Studies, 45/2 (2007), pp. 435-457 (co-authored with Daniela Sicurelli).

‘Les combattant irréguliers: une réévaluation morale et légale’, in Christian Malis (ed.), La guerre irréguliere (Paris: Economica, forthcoming 2010).

Ben Shephard

'Becoming Planning Minded: the Theory and Practice of Relief 1940-1945', in Journal of Contemporary History 43, pp.405-419.

'Why the Psychiatry of War is Too Important to be Left to Psychiatrists', in M. Lamer and J. Peto (eds), Medicine and War (Black Dog/Wellcome, 2008).

Henry Shue

Preemption: Military Action and Moral Justification, (with David Rodin, Eds), Oxford: Oxford University Press (2007)

'What Would A Justified Preventive Military Attack Look Like?' in Preemption (Shue & Rodin), 222-46

Torture in Dreamland: Disposing of the Ticking Bomb, in Journal of International Law, Case Western Reserve, Vol. 37, No's 2 & 3 (2006).

'Preemption, Prevention, and Predation: Why the Bush Strategy is Dangerous', in Philosophic Exchange, no. 35 (2004-05), pp. 5-17.

'Limiting Sovereignty', in Humanitarian Intervention and International Relations, Jennifer M. Welsh (Ed.), (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), pp. 11-28.

'The Impossibility of Justifying Weapons of Mass Destruction', in Ethics and Weapons of Mass Destruction, Sohail Hoshemi & Steven Lee (Eds.), (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), pp. 139-62.

'War', in The Oxford Handbook of Practical Ethics, Hugh LaFollette (Ed.), (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), pp. 734-61; reprinted in Peace Studies: Critical Concepts in Political Science, Matthew Evangelista (Ed.), (London and New York: Routledge, 2005).

'Bombing to Rescue? NATO’s 1999 Bombing of Serbia', in Ethics and Foreign Intervention, Deen K. Chatterjee & Don E. Scheid (Eds.), (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), pp. 97-117.

'The Debate on Torture: Response', in Dissent (Summer 2003), pp. 90-1.

'Torture' [1978], reprinted in Torture: A Collection, Sanford Levinson (Ed.), (Oxford University Press, 2004).

Uwe Steinhoff

'On the Ethics of War and Terrorism', Oxford: Oxford University Press, (2007)

'Torture: The Case for Dirty Harry and against Alan Dershowitz', Journal of Applied Philosophy 23 (2006), pp.337-353.

'Warum Foltern manchmal moralisch erlaubt, ihre Institutionalisierung durch Folterbefehle aber moralisch unzulässig ist' ('Why Torture Is Sometimes Morally Permitted While Its Institutionalisation Is Morally Illegitimate'), in Wolfgang Lenzen (ed.), Ist Foltern erlaubt? Juristische und philosophische Aspekte, mentis, Paderborn 2006, pp.173-197.

Moralisch korrektes Töten: Zur Ethik des Krieges und des Terrorismus, Melzer, Neu-Isenburg, 2006.

'Yet another revised DDE? A note on David K. Chan's DDED', in Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, (2006), pp.231-236.

Commentary: 'Moral Ambiguities in the Bombing of Monte Cassino', in Journal of Military Ethics, 4(2) (2005), pp.142-143.

'The Ethics of Terrorism', in Ethics of Terrorism & Counter Terrorism, Georg Meggle (ed.), Ontos, Frankfurt am Main 2005, pp.215-224.

'How Can Terrorism Be Justified?', in Terrorism: The Philosophical Issues, Igor Primoratz (ed.), Palgrave, Basingstoke 2004 , pp.139-156.

'Die Ethik des Terrorismus', in Medien und Terrorismus, Christian Schicha & Carsten Brosda (Eds.), LIT-Verlag, Münster 2003, pp.188-197.

Hew Strachan

Clausewitz in the Twenty First Century, edited by Strachan and Herberg Rothe (Oxford University Press, 2007)

Clausewitz's "ON WAR": A Book that Shook the World, (Atlantic Books, 2007)

'Die Ostfront. Geopolitik, Geographie und Operationen', in Die vergessene Front. Der Osten 1914/15, ed Gerhard P. Gross (Ferdinand Schöningh, 2006), pp 11-26

'Training, Morale and Modern War', in Journal of Contemporary History, 41 (2006), pp 211-27

'A General Typology of Transcultural Wars', in Transcultural Wars from the Middle Ages to the 21st Century, ed Hans Henning-Kortüm, (Akademie Verlag, 2006)

'Strategic Bombing and the question of Civilian Casualties until 1945', in Firestorm: the bombing of Dresden, eds Paul Anderson and Jeremy Crang, 2006

Big Wars and Small Wars, Routledge, 2006

'Les Histories Militaries Officielles de la Premiére Guerre Mondiale', in Histoire Culturelle de la Grande Guerre, edited by Jean-Jacques Becker (Armand Colin, 2005)

'The Lost Meaning of Strategy', in Survival, vol. 47, no. 3 (Autumn 2005).

'Total War: the conduct of war 1939-1945', in A world at Total War, edited by Roger Chickering, Stig Förster and Bernd Greiner (Cambridge, 2005), pp 33-52

Financing the First World War, (Oxford University Press, 2004). 268 pp

The Outbreak of the First World War, (Oxford University Press, 2004). 299 pp

The First World War in Africa, (Oxford University Press, 2004). 224 pp

Gil-Li Vardi

'Pounding Their Feet': Israeli Military Culture as Reflected in Early IDF Combat History, in Journal of Strategic Studies, Volume 31, Issue 2 April 2008, pages 295 – 324.