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OverviewUnlawful Combatants brings the study of irregular warfare back into the centre of war studies. The experience of recent and current wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Syria showed that the status and the treatment of irregular fighters is one of the most central and intricate practical problems of contemporary warfare. Yet, the current literature in strategic studies and international relations more broadly does not problematize the dichotomy between the regular and the irregular. Rather, it tends to take it for granted and even reproduces it by depicting irregular warfare as a deviation from the norm of conventional, inter-state warfare. In this context, irregular warfare is often referred to as the 'new wars' and is associated with the erosion of statehood and sovereignty more generally. This obscures the fact that irregulars such as rebels, guerrillas, insurgents and terrorist groups have a far more ambiguous relationship to the state than the dichotomy between the state and 'non-state' actors implies. They often originate from states, are supported by states and/or aspire to statehood themselves. The ambiguous relationship between irregular fighters and the state is the focus of the book. It explores how the category of the irregular fighter evolved as the conceptual opposite of the regular armed forces, and how this emergence was tied to the evolution of the nation state and its conscripted mass armies at the end of the eighteenth century. It traces the development of the dichotomy of the irregular and the regular, which found its foremost expression in the modern law of armed conflict, into the twenty-first century and provides a critique of the concept of the 'unlawful combatant' as it emerged in the framework of the 'war on terror'. This book is a project of Changing Character of War programme at the University of Oxford. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Sibylle Scheipers (Senior Lecturer in International Relations, Senior Lecturer in International Relations, University of St Andrews)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 16.30cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 24.00cm Weight: 0.586kg ISBN: 9780199646111ISBN 10: 0199646112 Pages: 284 Publication Date: 22 January 2015 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of Contents1: Introduction 2: The Making of the Irregular Fighter, 1740-1815 3: The Nineteenth Century: Rebels, Rifles, and the Laws of War 4: The Second World War: Anti-Partisan Warfare, Genocide, and the Rebirth of the Auxiliary Fighter 5: Wars in the Colonies: Orientalism and the Social Production of Colonial Subjects 6: Irregular Fighters in the Twenty-first Century: Between 'Unlawful Combatants' and 'Rebel' Auxiliaries 7: Conclusion BibliographyReviewsAuthor InformationSibylle Scheipers is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of St Andrews. Before joining the School of International Relations, she was Director of Studies of the Changing Character of War Programme at Oxford University. Her research focuses on the law of armed conflict, prisoners-of-war, irregular fighters, and detention and interrogation in the 'war on terror'. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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