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For items in the Oxford Handbooks series, not merely any OUP title that could be called a handbook. Pages in category "Oxford Handbooks" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
[128] [124] [129] In 2005, historian C. J. Bearman published a study on the bombing and arson campaign in which he asserted: "The intention of the campaign was certainly terrorist in terms of the word's definition, which according to the Concise Oxford Dictionary (1990 edition) is 'a person who uses or favours violent and intimidating methods ...
An insurgency is a violent, armed rebellion by small, lightly armed bands who practice guerrilla warfare against a larger authority. [1] [2] [3] The key descriptive feature of insurgency is its asymmetric nature: small irregular forces face a large, well-equipped, regular military force state adversary. [4]
In order to facilitate organized, determined, and principled opposition to the wars, people have often founded anti-war organizations. These groups range from temporary coalitions which address one war or pending war, to more permanent structured organizations which work to end the concept of war and the factors which lead to large-scale destructive conflicts.
A 2017 study found that the just war tradition can be traced as far back as to Ancient Egypt. [9] Egyptian ethics of war usually centered on three main ideas, these including the cosmological role of Egypt, the pharaoh as a divine office and executor of the will of the gods, and the superiority of the Egyptian state and population over all other states and peoples.
The steps-to-war framework posits an underlying and proximate cause of war. The chief underlying cause of war is the existence of a territorial dispute. Disputes over territory are less likely to be resolved than disputes over other issues, and given their salient and transcendental nature, can be expected to create hardline interest groups and ...
The Oxford Handbook of Political Ideologies. OUP Oxford. ISBN 978-0-19-166371-0. Brown, Archie. "Communism". In Freeden, Sargent & Stears (2013). Franks, Benjamin. "Anarchism". In Freeden, Sargent & Stears (2013). Gerstle, Gary (2022). The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era. Oxford University Press.
The Oxford Handbook of Carl Schmitt is a 2017 book about the legal scholar and political philosopher Carl Schmitt, edited by Jens Meierhenrich and Oliver Simons for Oxford University Press and its Oxford Handbooks series. [1]