The Changing Fights and Fighters of Contemporary War

This interdisciplinary volume examines how movement between the margins and mainstream of warfare is impacting contemporary conflict. Actors, battlefields, and practices traditionally considered within the margins of war such as propagandists, and private companies have increasingly found themselves at the centre of conflicts, while traditional practices, actors, and locations of war such as geographically bounded battlefields and uniform clad soldiers engaging their enemy in direct battle have become increasingly marginalized. Anchored in the war studies tradition with its prudent, multidisciplinary approach, this volume offers a fresh conceptual frame for an overdue investigation into how the changing practices in contemporary wars permit us to reevaluate our understandings of fighters and battlefields.

Provides a novel argument conceptualizing changes to war as movements between the margins and mainstream of warfare Offers a multidisciplinary in-depth investigation of the changing fighters and battlefields of contemporary wars Considers contemporary warfare to discuss the fundamental relevance of these changes

Autorentext

Marie Robin is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA), Leiden University (The Netherlands), researching revenge in conflicts, disinformation/propaganda, and the ethics of war.

Amelie Theussen is Associate Professor at the Royal Danish Defence College, researching the changing character of war and Arctic and Baltic Sea security.

Kerstin Bree Carlson is Associate Professor in Law and Society at Roskilde University (Denmark) and The American University of Paris researching terror law and transitional justice.

Inhalt

Chapter 1: Introduction: From Margins to Middle: Introducing Movement in Our Understanding of Wars.- Chapter 2: Not to Confuse Ourselves: The Changing Character of War and Conceptual Change.- Chapter 3: 'Pulling the Strings: Why are Proxy Wars back from the Margins.- Chapter 4: From Lines to Layers: Redrawing the Middle and Margins of the Battlefield.- Chapter 5: The Middle-Ground Amidst Great (Cyber) Power Competition: From Pawns to Kingmakers?.- Chapter 6: Peacemaking from the Peripheries: Lessons from the Women of Sudan on Informal Pathways to Peace.- Chapter 7: Fighting like a Propagandist? How Al Qaeda and the Islamic State Conceptualize their Battlefield.- Chapter 8: Politics of Exclusion in Military Organizations: The Institutional Position of RPA Pilots.- Chapter 9: Explaining European Military Engagement in the Fight Against Daesh.- Chapter 10: Transitional Justice for European Foreign Fighters? What Colombia's Transitional Justice Mechanism (JEP) Teaches.- Chapter 11: Conclusion: Applying the Middle/Margins Model to International Law and the Rules-Based International Order.