The Barbarization of Warfare - Hardcover

 
9780814747964: The Barbarization of Warfare
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0814747965 ISBN 13: 9780814747964
Verlag: NYU Press - IPS, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

The images from Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad have been a grim reminder of warfare's undiminished capacity for brutality and indiscriminate excess. What happened in Abu Ghraib has happened before: the World War II, and more recent wars and insurgencies in Algeria, Congo, Angola, Vietnam, Bosnia, Kosovo, Chechnya, and many others, all bear witness to the ever-present human capacity to commit barbaric acts if circumstances allow.
What drives people to mistreat, humiliate, and torment others? In an age when real time war, violence, and torture are becoming addictive forms of entertainment, it is now more critical than ever to deepen our understanding of the extraordinary distortions of the human psyche and spirit that occur in wartime. Eight distinguished scholars explore, in this first collective effort, the effects of the barbarization of warfare on our cultures and societies.
Contributors: Joanna Bourke, Niall Ferguson, Jay Winter, Richard Overy, David Anderson, Hew Strachan, Paul Rogers, Kathleen Taylor, Marilyn Young, Paul Rogers, Anthony Dworkin, Amir Weiner, Mary Habeck, and David Simpson.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

George Kassimeris is a Senior Research Fellow in Conflict and Terrorism at the University of Wolverhampton. He is the author of Europe's Last Red Terrorists (NYU Press) the first book in any language on Greece's notorious November 17th terrorist group. He writes regularly for the Wall Street Journal Europe and the International Herald Tribune and is now working on a biography of Andreas Papandreou.

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Verlag
NYU Press - IPS
Erscheinungsdatum
2006
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0814747965
ISBN 13 
9780814747964
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
334
Herausgeber
Kassimeris George
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