This book explores Russia's military and demographic competition with the Crimean Khanate and Ottoman Empire for control of the Black Sea steppe in the eighteenth century.
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In terms of resource mobilization and devastation the wars between Russia, the Crimean Khanate and the Ottoman Empire were some of the largest of the eighteenth century, and had enormous consequences for the balance of power in Eastern Europe. Davies examines how these conflicts…
World War III did not occur in the 1950s and 1960s as many had feared. Yet it spawned a host of military engagements that affected millions of lives. Here is a comprehensive, multinational overview of military affairs during the early Cold War, beginning with conflicts during Wo…
Gender and trauma since 1900
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"Is Trauma a transhistorical, transnational phenomenon? Gender and Trauma challenges the standard history that has led to our contemporary understanding of psychological trauma to answer this question, and to explore the impact of gender in the experience and understanding of em…
"In its revised and updated fourth edition, this exhaustive encyclopedia provides a record of casualties of war from the last five centuries through 2015, with new statistical and analytical information. Arranged by century and subdivided by world region, chronological entries i…
How do we understand illicit violence? Can we prevent it? Building on behavioral science and economics, this book begins with the idea that humans are more predictable than we like to believe, and this ability to model human behavior applies equally well to leaders of violent an…
Introduction -- The Environment and The Laws of Armed Conflict -- The Environment and Human Rights Law -- The Environment and International Environmental Law -- Complementing the Laws Of Armed Conflict with Human Rights Law and International Environmental Law -- General Conclusi…
"This book is concerned with the international regulation of non-State armed groups. Specifically, it examines the possibility of subjecting armed groups to international human rights law obligations. First addressed is the means by which armed groups may be bound by internation…
This book examines how international law fails to address the contemporary experience of what are known as 'new wars' - instances of armed conflict and violence in places such as Syria, Ukraine, Libya, Mali, the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan. International law, la…
Part 1: War and the Impact of External Aid 2. Today's Wars and the Pursuit of justice 3. Characteristics of Conflict Areas 4. Aid's impact on Conflict Through Resource Transfers 5. Aid's impact on Conflict Through Implicit Ethical Messages 6. Framework for Analyzing Aid's I…