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Today's warfare has moved away from being an event between massed
national populations and toward small numbers of combatants using
high-tech weaponry. The editors of and contributors to the timely
collection Transformations of Warfare in the Contemporary World
show that this shift reflects changes in the technological,
strategic, ideological, and ethical realms. The essays in this
volume discuss: *the waning connection between citizenship and
soldiering; *the shift toward more reconstructive than destructive
activities by militaries; *the ethics of irregular or asymmetrical
warfare; *the role of novel techniques of identification in
military settings; *the stress on precision associated with
targeted killings and kidnappings; *the uses of the social sciences
in contemporary warfare. In his concluding remarks, David Jacobson
explores the extent to which the contemporary transformation of
warfare is a product of a shift in the character of the combatants
themselves. Contributors include: Ariel Colonomos, Roberto J.
Gonzalez, Travis R. Hall, Saskia Hooiveld, Rob Johnson, Colonel C.
Anthony Pfaff, Ian Roxborough, and the editors
This book presents the first detailed history of the modern
passport and why it became so important for controlling movement in
the modern world. It explores the history of passport laws, the
parliamentary debates about those laws, and the social responses to
their implementation. The author argues that modern nation-states
and the international state system have 'monopolized the
'legitimate means of movement',' rendering persons dependent on
states' authority to move about - especially, though not
exclusively, across international boundaries. This new edition
reviews other scholarship, much of which was stimulated by the
first edition, addressing the place of identification documents in
contemporary life. It also updates the story of passport
regulations from the publication of the first edition, which
appeared just before the terrorist attacks of 9/11, to the present
day.
This book presents the first detailed history of the modern
passport and why it became so important for controlling movement in
the modern world. It explores the history of passport laws, the
parliamentary debates about those laws, and the social responses to
their implementation. The author argues that modern nation-states
and the international state system have 'monopolized the
'legitimate means of movement',' rendering persons dependent on
states' authority to move about - especially, though not
exclusively, across international boundaries. This new edition
reviews other scholarship, much of which was stimulated by the
first edition, addressing the place of identification documents in
contemporary life. It also updates the story of passport
regulations from the publication of the first edition, which
appeared just before the terrorist attacks of 9/11, to the present
day.
Shortly after the hostilities of the Iraq War were declared to have
come to an end, the renowned philosopher Jurgen Habermas, with the
endorsement of Jacques Derrida, published a manifesto invoking the
notion of a "core Europe," distinct from both the British and the
"new" European candidates for EU membership, and defined above all
by its secular, Enlightenment and social-democratic traditions. A
key component of the manifesto was its insistence on the need for a
counterweight to the perceived influence of the US, a theme that
also resonates in recent discussions about the establishment of a
European military force outside the command structures of NATO. On
the same weekend in May 2003, a number of other leading
intellectuals, among them Umberto Eco, Gianni Vattimo and Richard
Rorty, published essays addressing these themes in major European
newspapers, and almost immediately responses to these essays began
to appear. The writings sparked a lively debate about the nature of
"Europe" and transatlantic relations that reverberates through
contemporary discussion. This volume provides readers in the
Anglophone world the opportunity to gain access to the debate. As
the fallout from the Iraq war continues to rumble and EU expansion
continues apace, this is compelling reading for anyone interested
in the future of Europe and the transatlantic alliance.
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