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“george kassimeris”

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  • Inside Greek Terrorism

    by George Kassimeris ...
    The long story of Greek terrorism was meant to have ended in the summer of 2002 with the collapse of the country's premier terrorist organisation and one of Europe's longest-running gangs, the notorious 17 November group (17N). However, rather than demoralising and emasculating the country's armed struggle movement, the dismantling of 17N and the imprisonment of its members led to the emergence of ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Warrior's Dishonour

    Barbarity, Morality and Torture in Modern Warfare

    Edited by George Kassimeris ...
    The characteristic act of men at war is not killing. It is killing by committing shocking and unspeakable atrocities, when circumstances permit. What drives ordinary people into hatred, genocide, inhumanity and evil? What turns friends and neighbours against each other with such savagery? Where does such barbarity come from? This collection examines the anarchy, cruelty and overwhelming confusion ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • The Ashgate Research Companion to Modern Warfare

    Edited by John Buckley, George Kassimeris ...
    This research collection provides a comprehensive study of important strategic, cultural, ethical and philosophical aspects of modern warfare. It offers a refreshing analysis of key issues in modern warfare, not only in terms of the conduct of war and the wider complexities and ramifications of modern conflict, but also concepts of war, the crucial shifts in the structure of warfare, and the ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

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  • The Direction of War

    Contemporary Strategy in Historical Perspective

    by Hew Strachan ...
    The wars since 9/11, both in Iraq and Afghanistan, have generated frustration and an increasing sense of failure in the West. Much of the blame has been attributed to poor strategy. In both the United States and the United Kingdom, public enquiries and defence think tanks have detected a lack of consistent direction, of effective communication, and of governmental coordination. In this important ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Another Bloody Century

    Future Warfare

    by Colin S. Gray ...
    How the wars of the near future will be fought and who will win themMany nations, peoples and special interest groups believe that violence will advance their cause. Warfare has changed greatly since the Second World War; it continued to change during the late 20th century and this process is still accelerating. Political, technological, social and religious forces are shaping the future of ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

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  • The Logic of Violence in Civil War

    by Stathis N. Kalyvas ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
    By analytically decoupling war and violence, this book explores the causes and dynamics of violence in civil war. Against the prevailing view that such violence is an instance of impenetrable madness, the book demonstrates that there is logic to it and that it has much less to do with collective emotions, ideologies, and cultures than currently believed. Kalyvas specifies a novel theory of ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Counterinsurgency

    Exposing the Myths of the New Way of War

    by Douglas Porch ...
    Counterinsurgency has staked its claim in the new century as the new American way of war. Yet, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have revived a historical debate about the costs - monetary, political and moral - of operations designed to eliminate insurgents and build nations. Today's counterinsurgency proponents point to 'small wars' past to support their view that the enemy is 'biddable' if the ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Introduction to Edward Said

    by Conor McCarthy ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Literature
    One of the most famous literary critics of the twentieth century, Edward Said's work has been hugely influential far beyond academia. As a prominent advocate for the Palestinian cause and a noted music critic, Said redefined the role of the public intellectual. In his books, as scholarly as they are readable, he challenged conventional critical demarcations between disciplines. His major opus, ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • The Law of Armed Conflict

    Constraints on the Contemporary Use of Military Force

    Edited by Howard M. Hensel ...
    Series series Global Interdisciplinary Studies Series
    Modern armed conflict has taken a variety of forms and occurs at a variety of levels, raising serious questions concerning the relationship between the law of armed conflict and the reality of contemporary warfare. Many contemporary armed conflicts are fought in pursuit of unlimited objectives, whereas other modern wars seek to advance limited goals. While in some cases modern wars are fought by ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • War

    A Beginner's Guide

    by Aaron Edwards ...
    Series series Beginner's Guides
    War has been a perennial feature of human history since ancient times, yet it remains a poorly understood phenomenon. It has done much to shape our world, from overthrowing leaders, establishing international governance, and inspiring social change, to destroying cities, dividing nations and breeding animosity.In this book, Dr Aaron Edwards succinctly combines political theories with historical ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • War and the Cultural Turn

    by Jeremy Black ...
    In this stimulating new text, renowned military historian Jeremy Black unpacks the concept of culture as a descriptive and analytical approach to the history of warfare. Black takes the reader through the limits and prospects of culture as a tool for analyzing war, while also demonstrating the necessity of maintaining the context of alternative analytical matrices, such as technology.Black sets ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • Legacy of Violence

    A History of the British Empire

    by Caroline Elkins ...
    From a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian: a searing study of the British Empire that probes the country's pervasive use of violence throughout the twentieth century and traces how these practices were exported, modified, and institutionalized in colonies around the globeSprawling across a quarter of the world's land mass and claiming nearly seven hundred million people, Britain's twentieth-century ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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