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    A Century of War Among 74 international wars between 1816 and 1965, the top four occurred in the twentieth century: the two world wars, the Japanese war against china, and the Korean War. Between 1900 and 1999, there were about 250 new wars, in which battle deaths averaged at least a thousand per year. The total number of deaths by wars of the twentieth century has been estimated at 187 million.

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    War, Politics and Society

    2011/2012

    Introduction: Studying War

    The Coursebook
    Please read the coursebook from cover to cover! 2. Blackboard (See https://www.ble.ac.uk/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp.) (a) essential readings; (b) lecture slides; (c) coursebook.

    3.
    4.

    Attendance Essential!
    Teaching Arrangements For (a) lectures and (b) seminars.

    5.
    6.

    Assessment See details in the coursebook.


    Contacting Tutors Dr Jrg Spieker Dr Antoine Bousquet (j.spieker@bbk.ac.uk) (a.bousquet@bbk.ac.uk)

    1. Introduction: Studying War 2. Clausewitz: Philosopher of War 3. War and the Rise of the State

    4. War, Modernity and the Meaning of History


    5. Citizens in Arms: Civil-Military Relations 6. Workshop Week (No class)

    7. Reading Week (No class)


    8. The Way of the Warrior 9. Mind and Body in War 10. Globalisation and the New Wars

    11. War and Genocide 12. Weapons of Mass Destruction and the Nuclear Age 13. Humanising War 14. Terrorism and the Global War on Terror 15. Workshop Week (No class) 16. Reading Week (No class)

    17. Science, Technology and War


    18. Representations of War: Experience, Memory & Media 19. Revision Session

    A Century of War
    Among 74 international wars between 1816 and 1965, the top four occurred in the twentieth century: the two world wars, the Japanese war against China, and the Korean War. Between 1900 and 1999, there were about 250 new wars, between and within states, in which battle deaths averaged at least a thousand per year.

    The total number of deaths by wars of the twentieth century has been estimated at 187 million.

    Why study war?


    If you wish for peace, understand war.
    (B.H. Liddell Hart)

    You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.


    (Leon Trotsky)

    How do we study war?

    International Relations/Strategic Studies

    History
    Sociology

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