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Unlawful Combatants - A Genealogy of the Irregular Fighter (Hardcover)
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Unlawful Combatants - A Genealogy of the Irregular Fighter (Hardcover)
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Unlawful Combatants brings the study of irregular warfare back into
the centre of war studies. The experience of recent and current
wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Syria showed that the status
and the treatment of irregular fighters is one of the most central
and intricate practical problems of contemporary warfare. Yet, the
current literature in strategic studies and international relations
more broadly does not problematize the dichotomy between the
regular and the irregular. Rather, it tends to take it for granted
and even reproduces it by depicting irregular warfare as a
deviation from the norm of conventional, inter-state warfare. In
this context, irregular warfare is often referred to as the 'new
wars' and is associated with the erosion of statehood and
sovereignty more generally. This obscures the fact that irregulars
such as rebels, guerrillas, insurgents and terrorist groups have a
far more ambiguous relationship to the state than the dichotomy
between the state and 'non-state' actors implies. They often
originate from states, are supported by states and/or aspire to
statehood themselves. The ambiguous relationship between irregular
fighters and the state is the focus of the book. It explores how
the category of the irregular fighter evolved as the conceptual
opposite of the regular armed forces, and how this emergence was
tied to the evolution of the nation state and its conscripted mass
armies at the end of the eighteenth century. It traces the
development of the dichotomy of the irregular and the regular,
which found its foremost expression in the modern law of armed
conflict, into the twenty-first century and provides a critique of
the concept of the 'unlawful combatant' as it emerged in the
framework of the 'war on terror'. This book is a project of
Changing Character of War programme at the University of Oxford.
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