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Lecture 10Monday March 14, 2011

PEACE ST 2BB3: Introduction to the Study of WarDr Colin Salter, Centre for Peace Studies, McMaster University

New War TheoryWar today

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Outline

What is/is there something new

No draft

Implications

Technological warfare

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New War Theory

post-Berlin wall collapse (1989)

Mix of conventional warfare, organised crime &human rights violations

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Criticisms

Historical exceptionalism?

Targeting of civilians Territorial sovereignty

Is there no draft/conscription?

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Wired for war

PW Singer (2009)

New York Times non-ctionbest seller list

Financial Times non-ctionbook of the year

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Does a new kind of war render traditional legalrestraints on warfare void and justify new rules?

Are torture, detention without trial or even pre-emptive military strikes all necessary responses within anew security paradigm?

Helen Dexter (2007)

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Citations & further reading

Helen Dexter (2007) New War, Good War and the War on Terror: Explaining,Excusing and Creating Western Neo-interventionism, Development and Change , Vol.38, No. 6:10551071

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Image sourcesPablo Picasso (1937) Guernica. Oil on canvas.

Unknown soldier in Iraq. Date unknown. sourced from http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2007/06/09/some-interior-situational-sources-war--part-v/

Carlos Latuff (2003) War 2 . Sourced from http://latuff2.deviantart.com/art/War-2-27832944

Crimethinc (undated) War on Terror/Drugs . http://www.crimethinc.com/tools/downloads/

Shaney Komulainen of Canadian Press (Sept 1 1990) Pte. Patrick Cloutier, a 'Van Doo' perimetersentry, and Mohawk Warrior Brad "Freddy Krueger" Larocque face off. Remixed by dangerousbob,deviantART http://dangerousbob.deviantart.com/art/Okarom-Crisis-79679086

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Video SourcesPW Singer on military robots and the future of war, April 2009.http://www.ted.com/talks/pw_singer_on_robots_of_war.html

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