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Warrior's dishonour [electronic resource] : barbarity, morality and torture in modern warfare / edited by George Kassimeris.

Contributor(s): Kassimeris, George | ebrary, Inc.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2006Description: ix, 243 p. ; 24 cm.Other title: Warrior's dishonor.Subject(s): War -- Psychological aspects | Torture | Human rights | Violence -- Case studiesGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 303.6/6 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
The warrior's dishonour / George Kassimeris -- Stories of atrocity -- Barbarism in war : soldiers and civilians in the British Isles, c.1641-1652 / Frank Tallett -- Hatred and honour in the military culture of the French revolution / Ian Germani -- The British army and controlling barbarization during the Kenya emergency / Huw C. Bennet -- Between terror and insurgency : the LRA's dirty war in Northern Uganda / Anthony Vinci -- Barbarity as strategy in modern warfare -- Why there is no barbarisation but a lot of barbarity in warfare / Uwe Steinhoff -- Barbarity as strategy / Graham Long -- The barbarity of contemporary culture -- Taking the gloves off and the illusion of victory : how not to conduct a counter-insurgency / David Whetham -- The discursive construction of torture in the war on terror : narratives of danger and evil / Richard Jackson -- War crimes and human rights -- Reconstructing war : the politics of conflict and barbarity via the Yugoslav tribunal / Tim Montgomery -- "Not being victims ever again" : victimhood and ideology / Stephen Riley -- Making torture legal? -- Justifying absolute prohibitions on torture as if consequences mattered / Michael Plaxton -- Torture, evidence and criminal procedure in the age of terrorism : a barbarisation of the criminal justice system? / Dimitrios Giannoulopoulos.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

The warrior's dishonour / George Kassimeris -- Stories of atrocity -- Barbarism in war : soldiers and civilians in the British Isles, c.1641-1652 / Frank Tallett -- Hatred and honour in the military culture of the French revolution / Ian Germani -- The British army and controlling barbarization during the Kenya emergency / Huw C. Bennet -- Between terror and insurgency : the LRA's dirty war in Northern Uganda / Anthony Vinci -- Barbarity as strategy in modern warfare -- Why there is no barbarisation but a lot of barbarity in warfare / Uwe Steinhoff -- Barbarity as strategy / Graham Long -- The barbarity of contemporary culture -- Taking the gloves off and the illusion of victory : how not to conduct a counter-insurgency / David Whetham -- The discursive construction of torture in the war on terror : narratives of danger and evil / Richard Jackson -- War crimes and human rights -- Reconstructing war : the politics of conflict and barbarity via the Yugoslav tribunal / Tim Montgomery -- "Not being victims ever again" : victimhood and ideology / Stephen Riley -- Making torture legal? -- Justifying absolute prohibitions on torture as if consequences mattered / Michael Plaxton -- Torture, evidence and criminal procedure in the age of terrorism : a barbarisation of the criminal justice system? / Dimitrios Giannoulopoulos.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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