Lukusuositukset: Sodan teoria

The book examines the history of war through the ages and across the globe, exploring reasons groups go to war, the different forms of war, how warfare has changed and how it has stayed the same, and the surprising ways in which seemingly powerful countries lose wars.

Howard guides the reader through Clausewitz’s major work, explains ideas presented in it in terms of Clausewitz’s own experiences and of the intellectual background of his time.

Book analyses how the concept of war has been used in different contexts from the seventeenth to the late nineteenth century, exploring the function of war in state building and formation of the international order.

The book develops robust ethical framework to support and reinforce the just war principles and to provide guidance in their application and implementation. The book offers clear analysis of how to apply just war tradition in the twenty-first century context.

The book covers both traditions of victory – charting the historically variable notion of victory, and the dialogues and fissures this opens in the just and strategic canons – along with contemporary challenges of victory, analysing how new security contexts put pressure on these fissures and working towards clearer ideas about victory today.

“The book explains why we must hold political and military leaders accountable for genocide, torture and mass murder. It shows how human rights standards can be enforced against a cruel governments, armies and multi-national corporations. This seminal work contains a critical perspective on recent events in Egypt, Syria and Libya; the Charles Taylor conviction; and the trials of Mladic Karadzic and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.”

“This book brings significant new understanding to the question of whether and when armed groups might be bound by human rights law. The book presents a new viewpoint on the role that human rights law plays vis-à-vis international humanitarian law in non-international armed conflicts, sheds light on the circumstances in which armed groups acquire obligations under human rights law and tests the four most utilized theories of how armed groups are bound by human rights law.”