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EBOOK Prisoners in War

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Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780191610387
EAN: 54BDBE36EB
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Stron: 342
Data wydania: 2010
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The issue of prisoners in war is a highly timely topic that has received much        attention from both scholars and practitioners since the start of the military        operations in Afghanistan and Iraq and the ensuing legal and political problems        concerning detainees in those conflicts. This book analyses these contemporary        problems and challenges against the background of their historical development. It        provides a multidisciplinary yet highly coherent perspective on the        historicaltrajectory of legal and ethical norms in this field by integrating the        historical analysis of war with a study of the emergence of the modern legal regime        of prisoners in war. In doing so, it provides the first comprehensive study of        prisoners, detainees and internees in war, covering a broad range of bothregular and        irregular wars from the crusades to contemporary counterinsurgency campaigns.The        book revolves around two major developments: First, there has been a continuous        increase in the political relevance of prisoners in war, in particular since the        emergence of POW camps in the nineteenth century. Secondly, and related, the growth        in the legal regime pertaining to prisoners had contradictory consequences. Whilst        it enhanced the protection of prisoners in regular conflicts, its state-centric bias        tends to exclude combatants who do not fit the template of regular inter-statewar.          Detainees in the 'war on terror' embody both tendencies, the development of which,        however, is by no means a novel phenomenon.This book is a project of the Oxford        Leverhulme Programme on the Changing Character of War.

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