The Civilianization of war : the changing civil-military divide, 1914-2014 / edited by Andrew Barros, Martin Thomas.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Barros, Andrew, 1963- editor.

Thomas, Martin, 1964- editor.

Series:

Human Rights in History.

Human rights in history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilians in war--History--20th century.

Civilians in war.

Civilians in war--History--21st century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 334 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Summary:

Distinguishing between civilians and combatants is a central aspect of modern conflicts. Yet such distinctions are rarely upheld in practice. The Civilianization of War offers new ways of understanding civilians' exposure to violence in war. Each chapter explores a particular approach to the political, legal, or cultural distinctions between civilians and combatants during twentieth-century and contemporary conflicts. The volume as a whole suggests that the distinction between combatants and non-combatants is dynamic and oft-times unpredictable, rather than fixed and reciprocally understood. Contributors offer new insights into why civilian targeting has become a strategy for some, and how in practice its avoidance can be so difficult to achieve. Several discuss distinct population groups that have been particularly exposed to wartime violence, including urban populations facing aerial bombing, child soldiers, captives, and victims of sexual violence. The book thus offers multiple perspectives on the civil-military divide within modern conflicts, an issue whose powerful contemporary resonance is all too apparent.

Contents:

Who fights? : combatants, mobilization, and the changing nature of war

The "Total War" era, 1914-1945

Doing the necessary : the declaration of London and British strategy, 1905-1915 / John Ferris

Fighting the Fifth Column : the terror in Republican Madrid during the Spanish Civil War / Julius Ruiz

Moscow 1941 : the rise and fall of the Soviet People's Militia (Narodnoe Opolchenie) / Jean Levesque

The Cold War and decolonization, 1945-2000

The collapsing civil-military divide in wars of decolonization : two case studies from the Indochina War (1945-1954) / Christopher Goscha

Parallel ambiguities : prisoners during the Algerian War of Independence / Raphaelle Branche

East Pakistan/Bangladesh 1971-72: how many victims, who, and why? / Christian Gerlach

"I wasn't a boy, I was a soldier" : militarization and civilianization in narratives of child soldiers in Africa's contemporary conflicts, c. 1990-2010 / Stacey Hynd

A moving target: strategic bombing and civilians, 1916- 2014

The problems of opening Pandora's box : strategic bombing and the civil-military divide, 1916-39 / Andrew Barros

Bombing civilians scientifically : operational research in bomber command, 1941-1945 / Victor Bissonnette

Creating a cordon sanitaire: U.S. strategic bombing and civilians in the Korean War / Alexander Downes

"One hell of a killing machine." how a civilian agency became the vanguard of America's war on terror / Chris Fuller

Civilian protection and international norms and organizations: when and how much?

Turn everyone into a civilian : Rene Cassin and the Unesco Project, 1919-1945 / Andrew Barros

Human rights is the continuation of war by other means: the United States and the creation of the United Nations Human Rights Commission, 1945-48 / Olivier Barsalou

The United Nations, decolonization, and violence against civilians in the French and British Empires / Martin Thomas

The "protection of civilians": peacekeeping's new raison d'etre? / Frederic Megret.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 25 Jul 2018).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-108-64071-0

1-108-64354-X

1-108-57001-1