Format:
Online-Ressource (xxiii, 324 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0415567327
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0203844335
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9780415567329
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9780203844335
Series Statement:
Routledge international handbooks
Content:
Provides an introduction to sociological and behavioral research on the effects of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Analyzing the effect of the two wars on military personnel and civilians, this handbook is of interest to students of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, military sociology and psychology, war studies, anthropology, and US politics
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; The Editors; Contributors; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction; Part I: War on the ground: combat and its aftermath; 1 Fighting two protracted wars: Recruiting and retention with an all-volunteer force; 2 Fighting the irregular war in Afghanistan: Success in combat; struggles in stabilization; 3 Learning the lessons of counterinsurgency; 4 Twenty-first century narratives from Afghanistan: Storytelling, morality, and war; 5 Two US combat units in Iraq: Psychological contracts when expectations and realities diverge
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6 Capture of Saddam Hussein: Social network analysis and counterinsurgency operations7 Apples, barrels, and Abu Ghraib; 8 The war on terror in the early twenty-first century: Applying lessons from sociological classics and sites of abuse; Part II: War on the ground: non-combat operations, non-combatants, and operators; 9 Policing post-war Iraq: Insurgency, civilian police, and the reconstruction of society; 10 Policing Afghanistan: Civilian police reform and the resurgence of the Taliban; 11 Managing humanitarian information in Iraq
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12 Role of contractors and other non-military personnel in today's wars13 Evaluating psychological operations in Operation Enduring Freedom; 14 Armed conflict and health: Cholera in Iraq; 15 Iraqi adolescents: Self-regard, self-derogation, and perceived threat in war; Part III: The war back home: the social construction of war, its heroes, and its enemies; 16 Globalization and the invasion of Iraq: State power and the enforcement of neoliberalism; 17 The Pakistan and Afghan crisis; 18 Mass media as risk-management in the "war on terror"
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19 Talking war: How elite US newspaper editorials and opinion pieces debated the attack on Iraq20 Debating anti-war protests: The microlevel discourse of social movement framing on a university listserv; 21 Making heroes: An attributional perspective; 22 Making the Muslim enemy: The social construction of the enemy in the war on terror; Part IV: The war back home: families and young people on the home front; 23 Greedy media: Army families, embedded reporting, and war in Iraq; 24 Military child well-being in the face of multiple deployments
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25 American undergraduate attitudes toward the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan: Trends and variationsIndex
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780415567329
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The Routledge Handbook of War and Society : Iraq and Afghanistan
Language:
English
