[PDF] Rethinking Warfare In The 21st Century eBook

Author : Iulian Chifu
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 29,85 MB
Release : 2023-07-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1009355260

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This book seeks to critically review and evaluate the changes and consistencies in how warfare is interpreted and represented by academics, mass media outlets and political actors in the 21st century. The authors suggest that it is essential to understand the evolution and transformation of contemporary warfare's conceptualisation and practice in order to make sense of the current global geopolitical transformations that are in process, from a unipolar to multipolar global order. They therefore examine the various key actors in international relations from conceptual, theoretical and empirical perspectives through thematic chapters that demonstrate the increasingly central role played by intangible factors in the representation and management of contemporary armed conflict. The book stresses the need to reflect and rethink the potentially highly problematic trajectory of the global community within the framework of 21st century warfare's political and informational influence and effects.

Author : Iulian Chifu
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 33,90 MB
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1009355236

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A critical and multifaceted analysis of the problems created by the politics and communicated representation of contemporary warfare.

Author : Doctor Amy Eckert
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 37,66 MB
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1848137710

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Rethinking the 21st Century brings much needed context and perspective to the security problems we face today. In recent years, the 'Bush Doctrine' - that the security threats we now face are entirely unprecedented - has echoed around the world. Global security and stability is now challenged not only by states and nuclear war, but by insurgency, disease, environmental degradation and military privatisation. Yet this creates a deep sense of disconnect in the way we perceive politics, and can be dangerously stark and ahistorical. The chapters here show that, far from being a clean break, the 'new' problems faced today might actually have 'old' solutions. What can Locke tell us about terrorists? What does Bentham have to say about sanctions? What are the ethics of outsourcing war to private companies? By looking back to decades and even centuries of ethical analysis and political theory, this book provides fascinating insight into all these questions.

Author : Alice Hills
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 27,88 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9780714656021

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This book is the first full-length study of a key security issue confronting the West in the 21st century: urban military operations, as undertaken by US and UK forces in Iraq. It relates operations in cities to the wider study of conflict and

Author : Isabelle Duyvesteyn
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 26,19 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0415354625

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Interpretations of war as driven by politics and state rationale, formulated most importantly by the nineteenth-century practitioner Carl von Clausewitz, have received strong criticism. Political explanations have been said to fall short in explaining conflicts in the Balkans, Africa, Asia and the attacks of September 11 2001 in the United States. This book aims to re-evaluate these criticisms by not only carefully scrutinising Clausewitz's arguments and their applicability, but also by a careful reading of the criticism itself. In doing so, the contributions on this book present empirical evidence on the basis of several case studies, addressing various aspects of modern war, such as the actors, conduct and purposes of war. The book concludes that while the debate on the nature of war has far from run its course, the interpretation of war as postulated by Clausewitz is not as inapplicable as some have claimed.

Author : Barry R. Schneider
Publisher :
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 45,9 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN :

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The authors of the essays in this book focus on issues relating to strategy and war fighting as the world moves into the twenty-first century. In these ten essays, the authors examine the debate over the future of airpower, the unique threat of biological warfare, the impact of the information revolution on warfare, and how changes in military technology might require a rethinking of the principles of warfare. These authors address whether new military technologies, new organization for warfare, and new strategies for employing forces on future battlefields will produce a revolution in military affairs.

Author : Ann Hironaka
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 16,56 MB
Release : 2017-03-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1107175119

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What motivates going to war? This book reexamines how leaders make decisions based on appearances of power over military reality.

Author : Gregory Simons
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 25,17 MB
Release : 2017-07-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1317039017

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This study discusses salient trends demonstrated by contemporary warfare of these first years of the 21st century. The authors reinforce previous notions of Fourth Generation Warfare, but most importantly explore the workings of new components and how these have modified the theory and practice of warfare beyond the basic divisions of conventional and unconventional warfare as witnessed in the preceding century. Throughout history there has been a close interaction between politics, communication and armed conflict and a main line of investigation of this book is to track changes that are presumed to have occurred in the way and manner in which armed conflicts are waged. Using cogent examples drawn variously from conflicts of the Arab Spring, the Islamic State and Russian adventurism in South Ossetia, Crimea and Eastern Ukraine, the authors demonstrate the application of Information Warfare, the practice of Hybrid Warfare, and offensive use of diplomacy, communications, economics and international law to obtain political and military advantages against the status quo states of the international community. The authors combine a theoretical framework with concrete empirical examples in order to create a better understanding and comprehension of the current events and processes that shape the character of contemporary armed conflicts and how they are informed and perceived in a highly mediatised and politicised world.