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.
Edited by:
Daniel Rothbart,
Karina Korostelina,
Mohammed Cherkaoui (George Mason University,
Arlington,
USA)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Spine: 28mm
Weight: 840g
ISBN: 9780415693936
ISBN 10: 0415693934
Series: War, Conflict and Ethics
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 19 March 2012
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Professional and scholarly
,
Primary
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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
Daniel Rothbart is Professor of Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University. He has published extensively in the fields of identity-based conflicts and the ethics of war, and currently co-chairs the Sudan Task Group, which is committed to building peace in the Darfur. Karina V. Korostelina is Associate Professor of Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University. She has published extensively on identity-based conflicts, civilian devastation, interfaith dialogue, and history and conflict. Mohammed D. Cherkaoui is adjunct professor at George Mason University and recently published The Palestinian Media at the Crossroads: Challenges and Expectations (March 2011). He was previously a media practitioner, and is the recipient of eleven professional awards for excellence in journalism.
