Warrior's dishonour
Subtitle: barbarity, morality and torture in modern warfare
By: edited by George Kassimeris.
Contributors: Kassimeris, George.
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Aldershot, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
ISBN-13: 9780754647997
Subjects: War -- Psychological aspects; Torture; Human rights; Violence -- Case studies
Genres: Case studies.
Other titles: Warrior's dishonor
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The warrior's dishonour / George Kassimeris; title: Stories of atrocity; title: Barbarism in war : soldiers and civilians in the British Isles, c.1641-1652 / Frank Tallett; title: Hatred and honour in the military culture of the French revolution / Ian Germani; title: The British army and controlling barbarization during the Kenya emergency / Huw C. Bennet; title: Between terror and insurgency : the LRA's dirty war in Northern Uganda / Anthony Vinci; title: Barbarity as strategy in modern warfare; title: Why there is no barbarisation but a lot of barbarity in warfare / Uwe Steinhoff; title: Barbarity as strategy / Graham Long; title: The barbarity of contemporary culture; title: Taking the gloves off and the illusion of victory : how not to conduct a counter-insurgency / David Whetham; title: The discursive construction of torture in the war on terror : narratives of danger and evil / Richard Jackson; title: War crimes and human rights; title: Reconstructing war : the politics of conflict and barbarity via the Yugoslav tribunal / Tim Montgomery; title: "Not being victims ever again" : victimhood and ideology / Stephen Riley; title: Making torture legal?; title: Justifying absolute prohibitions on torture as if consequences mattered / Michael Plaxton; title: Torture, evidence and criminal procedure in the age of terrorism : a barbarisation of the criminal justice system? / Dimitrios Giannoulopoulos.