Military, Strategic, and Security Studies Research

War and the Body

Militarisation, Practice and Experience

Edited by Kevin McSorley

Series: War, Politics and Experience

This edited volume places the body at the centre of critical thinking about war and its consequences. War is fundamentally embodied. The reality of war is not just politics by any other means but politics incarnate, politics written on and experienced through the thinking, feeling bodies of men and...

Published October 7th 2012 by Routledge

The Politics of Protest and US Foreign Policy

Performative Construction of the War on Terror

By Cami Rowe

Series: War, Politics and Experience

This book offers a study of post-9/11 anti-war organizations in the United States and their role in domestic foreign policy debates. The moment of the 9/11 terrorist attacks has been much cited in political and cultural scholarship and much attention has been paid to the promotion of "War on...

Published February 10th 2013 by Routledge

The Political Psychology of War Rape

Studies from Bosnia and Herzegovina

By Inger Skjelsbæk

Series: War, Politics and Experience

This book provides a conceptual framework for understanding war rape and its impact, through empirical examination of the case of Bosnia. Providing a contextual understanding of sexual violence in war, and situating Bosnian war rape in relation to subsequent conflicts, the book offers a...

Published September 15th 2011 by Routledge

Joy and International Relations

A New Methodology

By Elina Penttinen

Series: War, Politics and Experience

This book aims to develop new methodology for the study of international relations (IR) based on joy, informed by current thinking about posthumanism, feminist theory and positive psychology. It examines how the mechanistic-deterministic worldview derived from the Newtonian model has influenced the...

Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge

Gender, Agency and War

The Maternalized Body in US Foreign Policy

By Tina Managhan

Series: War, Politics and Experience

This book traces practices of militarization and resistance that have emerged under the sign of motherhood in US Foreign Policy. Gender, Agency and War examines this discourse against the background of three key moments of American foreign policy formation: the anti-nuclear movement of the 1980s,...

Published January 26th 2012 by Routledge

Experiencing War

Edited by Christine Sylvester

Series: War, Politics and Experience

This edited collection explores aspects of contemporary war that affect average people –physically, emotionally, and ethically through activities ranging from combat to television viewing. The aim of this work is to supplement the usual emphasis on strategic and national issues of war in the...

Published October 12th 2010 by Routledge