Why they die
Subtitle: civilian devastation in violent conflict
By: Daniel Rothbart and Karina V. Korostelina
Contributors: Korostelina, K. V. (Karina Valentinovna)
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780472117536; 9780472026388
Subjects: War (Philosophy); Modern Military history; Group identity; Civilians in war; War and society; Military Sociology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1. Disempowering civilians; title: Who dies in armed conflicts?; title: Distinguishing the enemy from the innocent in war; title: Deportation from Crimea; title: Genocide in Rwanda; title: The Second Lebanon War; title: Better safe than dead in Iraq; title: pt. 2. Conflict theory as value theory; title: Limitations of social identity theories in relation to conflict analysis; title: Understanding group identity as collective axiology; title: The normative dimensions of identity conflicts; title: Causality in explanations of civilian devastation.