Traditions of War: Occupation, Resistance and The Law

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OUP Oxford, 2.6.2005 - 306 sivua
Traditions of War examines wars and military occupation, and the ideas underlying them. The search for these ideas is conducted in the domain of the laws of war, a body of rules which sought to regulate the practices of war and those permitted to fight in it. This work introduces three ideologies: the martial, Grotian, and republican. These traditions were rooted in incommensurable conceptions of the good life, and the overall argument is that these differences lay at the heart of the failure fully to resolve the distinction between lawful and unlawful combatants at successive diplomatic conferences of Brussels in 1874, the Hague in 1899 and 1907, and Geneva in 1949. Based on a wide range of sources and a plurality of intellectual disciplines, this book places these diplomatic failures in their broader social and political contexts. By bringing out idealogical continuities and drawing on the social history of army occupation in Europe and resistance to it, this book both challenges and illuminates our understanding of modern war.

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Introduction
1
1 The Modern Laws of War from 1874 to 1949
4
2 Occupying Armies and Civilian Populations in NineteenthCentury Europe
19
3 The Conceptualization of War and the Value of Political Traditions
66
The Martial Tradition of War
80
Grotius and the Grotian Tradition of War
128
Rousseau Paoli Kosciuszko and the Republican Tradition of War
177
Conclusion
241
Bibliography
246
Index
273
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Karma Nabulsi is Prize Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford

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