Civilians and modern war : armed conflict and the ideology of violence
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Civilians and modern war : armed conflict and the ideology of violence
(War, conflict and ethics)
Routledge, 2012
- : hbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
1. The Place and Plight of Civilians in Modern War Part 1: Targeting Civilians 2. The Role of Civilians in American War Ideology 3. Devastating Civilians at Home: The Plight of Crimean Tatars and Californians of Asian Decent during World War II 4. Military Culture and Civilian Victimization: The Case of American Strategic Bombing in World War II 5. Double Victims: The Recruitment and Treatment of Child Soldiers in Chechnya Part 2: Preserving Civilian Immunity 6. The Politics of Civilian Identity 7. Israeli Soldiers' Perceptions of Palestinian Civilians during the 2009 Gaza War 8. Civilian Vulnerability in Asymmetric Conflict: Lessons from the Second Lebanon and Gaza Wars 9. Civilians Overshadowed by Soldiers: Faceless Victims of the Public Media Narrative 10. Civilians, Pundits, and the Mediatized Ideology Part 3: Redressing Anti-Civilian Practices 11. Trans-regional Military Dimensions of Civilian Protection: A Two-part Problem with a Two-part Solution 12. Civilians Under the Law: Inequality, Intersectionality, and Irony 13. The Price of Justice 14. Preventing Genocide: The Quest for System Response 15. Making Amends 16. Conclusion: the Road Ahead
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