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Mindy Cooper's List: Enemy Combatants and Modern Warfare

  • Nov 06, 09

    By Herfried Munkler; only includes beginning of the book; Contents: 1) What is new about the new wars? 2) Warfare, state building and the thirty years' war 3) The statization of war 4) the economics of force in the new wars 5) international terrorism 6) Military interventions and the west's dilemma

  • Nov 06, 09

    Includes up to page 43; Chapters: 2) Old Wars 3) Case study of Bosnia-Herzegovina 4) Politics of New Wars 5) Globalized War Economy 6) Towards a Cosmopolitan Approach 7)The "New War" in Iraq 8) Governance, Legitimacy and Security

  • Nov 06, 09

    by Kalevi Jaakko Holsti; Beginning of text is available in google books; Contents: 1) war in international poilitics (theoretical analysis, theoretical solutions, relevance of old concepts to new environments) 2)Wars of the third kind (institutionalized war, the descent to total war, and from total war to wars of the third kind) 3)The formation of states before 1945 (the community of citizens, the community of nations, the problem of state creation in 1919, war and the making of states in Europe) 4) The creation of states since1945 (the question of nationalism, national liberation, international legitimation of post-colonial states, the universalization of the state format) 5) the strength of states (authority/consent, Community, the continuum of state strength, strong states) 6) The perils of the weak: the state-strength dilemma (the variety of states, structural characteristics of weak states, practices and policies that prevent or erode legitimacy, the state-strength dilemma, individual responses to the state-strength dilemma, failed states) 7) Wars of the third kind and international politics (patterns of external involvement in wars of the third kind, local regional and systemic sources of wars of the third kind: political-security approaches, systemic sources of wars of the third kind: political-economy approaches, aggregating states: zones of war, zones of peace) 8) Analyzing an anomaly: war, peace, and the state in south america 9) international responses to the weak state: managing and resolving wars of the third kind Appendix: Major armed conflicts by region and type 1945-1995

  • Nov 06, 09

    Guilmartin's work starts on pg. 149; mainly a review of the wars of the ottoman empire but Jack Levy seems to think it's valid...thus...Can also be found in the Journal of Interdisciplinary History

  • Nov 06, 09

    by John Mueller; not sure about how helpful this one would be; contents: 7) Ordering the new world 8)Prospects for policing wars 9) the decline of war

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