Prisoners in war / edited by Sibylle Scheipers.
| Other author/creator | Scheipers, Sibylle. |
| Other author/creator | Oxford Leverhulme Programme on the Changing Character of War. |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010. |
| Description | xi, 330 pages ; 24 cm |
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| Contents | Introduction : prisoners in war / Sibylle Sheipers -- pt. 1. The emergence of legal and ethical standards before the Second World War. A cautionary tale from the Crusades? War and prisoners in conditions of normative incommensurability / Frédéric Mégret ; Prisoners in early modern European warfare / Peter H. Wilson ; Prisoners of war in international law : the nineteenth century / Stephen C. Neff ; Prisoners in the first World War / Alan R. Kramer ; The 1929 Prisoner of War Convention and the building of the inter-war prisoner of war regime / Neville Wylie -- pt. 2. Prisoners in regular conflicts--the Second World War. The treatment of prisoners of war in the western European theatre of war, 1939-45 / Bob Moore ; The treatment of prisoners of war in the Eastern European theatre of operations, 1941-56 / Rüdiger Overmans ; Japanese culture and the treatment of prisoners of war in the Asian-Pacific war / Philip Towle -- pt. 3. Detainees in irregular conflicts. Prisoners in colonial warfare : the imperial German example / Isabel V. Hull ; The French in Algeria : can there be prisoners of war in a 'domestic' operation? / Raphaëlle Branche ; Detention and interrogation in Northern Ireland, 1969-75 / Huw Bennett ; The status and treatment of detainees in Russia's Chechen campaigns / Bettina Renz -- pt. 4. Contemporary problems and challenges. Private military personnel as prisoners of war / Chia Lehnardt ; Child prisoners of war / Matthew Happold ; Legal issues related to armed conflict with non-state groups / John B. Bellinger III ; Detainees : misfits in peace and war / Adam Roberts ; Outsourcing torture : extraordinary rendition and the necessity for extraterritorial protection of human rights / David D. Cole ; Terrorist beheadings : politics and reciprocity / Alia Brahimi ; Conclusion : prisoners and detainees in current and future military operations / Sibylle Scheipers. |
| Abstract | The issue of prisoners in war is a highly timely topic that has received much attention from both scholars and practitioners since the start of the military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq and the ensuing legal and political problems concerning detainees in those conflicts. This book analyses these contemporary problems and challenges against the background of their historical development. It provides a multidisciplinary yet highly coherent perspective on the historical trajectory of legal and ethical norms in this field by integrating the historical analysis of war with a study of the emergence of the modern legal regime of prisoners in war. In doing so, it provides the first comprehensive study of prisoners, detainees and internees in war, covering a broad range of both regular and irregular wars from the crusades to contemporary counterinsurgency campaigns. The book revolves around two major developments: First, there has been a continuous increase in the political relevance of prisoners in war, in particular since the emergence of POW camps in the nineteenth century. Secondly, and related, the growth in the legal regime pertaining to prisoners had contradictory consequences. Whilst it enhanced the protection of prisoners in regular conflicts, its state-centric bias tends to exclude combatants who do not fit the template of regular inter-state war. Detainees in the 'war on terror' embody both tendencies, the development of which, however, is by no means a novel phenomenon. -- Back cover. |
| General note | "Result of a conference on 'Prisoners in War' conducted by the Leverhulme Programme on the Changing Character of War in December 2007 at Oxford University"--Acknowledgements. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Genre/form | Kongress. |
| Genre/form | Oxford (2007) |
| LCCN | 2009938806 |
| ISBN | 9780199577576 (hbk.) |
| ISBN | 0199577579 (hbk.) |
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| Joyner | General Stacks | UB800 .P746 2010 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |