Unlawful combatants : a genealogy of the irregular fighter / Sibylle Scheipers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scheipers, Sibylle.

Contributor:

Oxford Leverhulme Programme on the Changing Character of War.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Irregular warfare--History.

Irregular warfare.

Unlawful combatants--History.

Unlawful combatants.

War (International law)--History.

War (International law).

History.

Military history, Modern.

Physical Description:

xiii, 269 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2015.

Summary:

The book investigates the emergence and the development of irregular fighters, such as guerrillas, rebels, insurgents, and terrorists throughout the history of modern war. It presents a historically based critique of the twenty-first century notion of the irregular fighter as an 'unlawful combatant'.

Contents:

The making of the irregular fighter, 1740-1815

The nineteenth century: rebels, rifles, and the laws of war

The Second World War: anti-partisan warfare, genocide, and the rebirth of the auxiliary fighter

Wars in the colonies: orientalism and the social production of colonial subjects

Irregular fighters in the twenty-first century: between "unlawful combatants" and "rebel" auxiliaries

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-256) and index.

ISBN:

9780199646111

0199646112

OCLC:

905221939