Prisoners in War / edited by Sibylle Scheipers.

Includes index.

1: Sibylle Scheipers: Introduction: Prisoners in War Part I: The Emergence of Legal and Ethical Standards Before the Second World War 2: Frédéric Mégret: A Cautionary Tale from the Crusades? War and Prisoners in Conditions of Normative Incommensurability 3: Peter H. Wilson: Prisoners in Early Modern European Warfare 4: Stephen C. Neff: Prisoners of War in International Law: The Nineteenth Century 5: Alan Kramer: Prisoners in The First World War 6: Neville Wylie: The 1929 Prisoners of War Convention and the Building of the Inter-War Prisoner of War Regime Part II: Prisoners in Regular Conflicts - The Second World War 7: Bob Moore: The Treatment of Prisoners of War In The Western European Theatre of War 1939-1945 8: Rüdiger Overmans: The Treatment of Prisoners of War In The Eastern European Theatre of Operations 1941-1956 9: Philip Towle: Japanese Culture and The Treatment of Prisoners of War In The Asian-Pacific War Part III: Detainees in Irregular Conflicts 10: Isabel V. Hull: Prisoners in Colonial Warfare: The Imperial German Example 11: Raphaëlle Branche: The French in Algeria: Can There Be Prisoners of War In A 'Domestic' Operation? 12: Huw Bennett: Detention and Interrogation In Northern Ireland 1969-1975 13: Bettina Renz: The Status and Treatment of Detainees in Russia's Chechen Campaigns Part IV: Contemporary Problems and Challenges 14: Chia Lehnardt: Private Military Personnel as Prisoners Of War 15: Matthew Happold: Child Prisoners in War 16: John B. Bellinger III: Legal Issues Related To Armed Conflict with Non-State Groups 17: Adam Roberts: Detainees: Misfits in Peace And War 18: David Cole: Outsourcing Terror: Extraordinary Rendition and The Necessity For Extraterritorial Protection of Human Rights 19: Alia Brahimi: Terrorist Beheadings: Politics and Reciprocity 20: Sibylle Scheipers: Conclusion: Prisoners and Detainees in Current and Future Military Operations

The issue of prisoners in war is a highly timely topic that has received much attention from both scholars and practitioners since the start of the military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq and the ensuing legal and political problems concerning detainees in those conflicts. This book analyses these contemporary problems and challenges against the background of their historical development. It provides a multidisciplinary yet highly coherent perspective on the historicaltrajectory of legal and ethical norms in this field by integrating the historical analysis of war with a study of the emerg.