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Unlawful combatants : a genealogy of the irregular fighter /

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The book investigates the emergence and the development of irregular fighters, such as guerrillas, rebels, insurgents, and terrorists throughout the history of modern war. It presents a historically based critique of the twenty-first century notion of the irregular fighter as an 'unlawful comba...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Scheipers, Sibylle
Corporate Author: Oxford Leverhulme Programme on the Changing Character of War
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Irregular warfare > History.
Unlawful combatants > History.
War (International law) > History.
Military history, Modern.
Table of Contents:
  • The making of the irregular fighter, 1740-1815
  • The nineteenth century: rebels, rifles, and the laws of war
  • The Second World War: anti-partisan warfare, genocide, and the rebirth of the auxiliary fighter
  • Wars in the colonies: orientalism and the social production of colonial subjects
  • Irregular fighters in the twenty-first century: between "unlawful combatants" and "rebel" auxiliaries
  • Conclusion.