| War Amongst the People: Critical Assessments Contributor(s): Brown, David (Editor), Murray, Donette (Editor), Riemann, Malte (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1912440024 ISBN-13: 9781912440023 Publisher: Howgate Publishing Limited OUR PRICE: $37.99 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | War & Military |
| Dewey: 355 |
| LCCN: 2019393302 |
| Series: Sandhurst Trends in International Conflict |
| Physical Information: 0.61" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.90 lbs) 290 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Recent conflicts have required the armed forces to engage in what has been termed 'war amongst the people'. Such conflicts increasingly require a type of soldier deployed to function as an 'armed social worker', as was seen most recently in operations in Afghanistan and Iraq. If this increased focus on societal relations has - and should - become the area of prime concern for contemporary armed forces, this poses a series of conceptual and practical questions regarding the 'people' concerned and the nature of the society amongst which war is conducted. Scholars and practitioners come together in this volume to explore how armed forces can make sense of such complexity in conceptual terms and how military actors have practically interacted with local power structures and relations, with both positive and negative effects. It examines armed forces' engagement at the local level in a contemporary context, and contextualises this within the broader political, strategic, tactical and legal implications this engagement has had at home and overseas. |
Contributor Bio(s): Brown, David: - Dr David Brown is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Defence and International Affairs at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. He has written extensively on a range of security related issues, publishing books and articles on US and UK foreign and defence policy, contemporary power relations, aspects of European security and international intervention.Murray, Donette: - Dr Donette Murray is a Senior Lecturer at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. A Fellow of the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) and a former political advisor, she holds a doctorate from the University of Ulster and an LLM in International Law from the University of Maastricht. The author of four books on US foreign policy, she has also published in the Hague Yearbook of International Law on states' use of force in self-defence against non-state actors.Riemann, Malte: - Dr Malte Riemann is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Defence and International Affairs at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. Dr Riemann studied in Bremen and Pietermaritzburg and holds a PhD in International Relations from the University of Reading. His fields of interest include the privatisation of war and its effects on the state's legitimate monopoly on violence, the medicalisation of security, and the historicity of non-state actors. |
