Bücher von Philipp Schweers

Essay from the year 2009 in the subject Politics - Topic: Public International Law and Human Rights, grade: 7,5, University of Amsterdam (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), course: International Humanitarian Law, language: English, abstract: At the beginning of the 21st century it seems that warfare and armed conflict get messier and more chaotic than ever before. The phenomenon of weak and fragile statehood destabilizes whole regions and makes intra-state conflict to a constant feature with spill-over character in many areas of the world. At the same time do non-state armed actors, from warlords to armed militias to terrorists to private military firms, re-enter the international conflictscene. The globalized character of contemporary organized violence, especially the phenomenon of transnational terrorism, does challenge the international security structure. While symmetric inter-state conflicts are constantly decreasing and less likely to appear, the dominant form of contemporary armed conflict is intra-state and asymmetric by nature. One of the most striking features within contemporary armed violence is the increasingly important role of civilians, as victims but also as perpetrators and participants in hostilities. The fundamental line between soldiers and civilians has long been essential to the law of war, but with the rise of transnational terrorism, warlords and other non-state actors in armed conflict this distinction gets seemingly blurred.

Was ist Krieg? Diese Frage ist im 21. Jahrhundert nicht mehr im territorialen Sinn zu beantworten. Spätestens seit dem 11. September 2001 ist klar, dass sich die globale Sicherheitslage entscheidend verändert hat. Der ¿Feind¿ ist keine Nation mehr, er hat viele Gesichter und ist überall und nirgendwo.Daher widmet sich dieser Band der Neudefinition des Begriffes ¿Krieg¿. Wie sieht die veränderte Sicherheitslage aus und welche Folgen hat diese für die Verteidigung eines Landes?Aus dem Inhalt: Definition des Begriffs ¿Krieg¿, Veränderung des Krieges, Globalisierung der Sicherheitsprobleme, der internationale Terrorismus.