Unlawful combatants : a genealogy of the irregular fighter
Scheipers, SibylleAuthor
Oxford Leverhulme Programme on the Changing Character of WarContent Provider
The book investigates the emergence and the development of irregular fighters, such as guerrillas, rebels, insurgents, and terrorists throughout the history of modern war. It presents a historically based critique of the twenty-first century notion of the irregular fighter as an 'unlawful combatant'.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The book investigates the emergence and the development of irregular fighters, such as guerrillas, rebels, insurgents, and terrorists throughout the history of modern war. It presents a historically based critique of the twenty-first century notion of the irregular fighter as an 'unlawful combatant'.
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 18, 2014).
The making of the irregular fighter, 1740-1815 -- The nineteenth century: rebels, rifles, and the laws of war -- The Second World War: anti-partisan warfare, genocide, and the rebirth of the auxiliary fighter -- Wars in the colonies: orientalism and the social production of colonial subjects -- Irregular fighters in the twenty-first century: between "unlawful combatants"  and "rebel" auxiliaries -- Conclusion.
Irregular warfare
Unlawful combatants
War (International law)
Military history, Modern
Military & Naval Science
Law, Politics & Government
Military Science - General