TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brandsch,Jürgen
TI  - Killing Civilians in Civil War: The Rationale of Indiscriminate Violence 
SN  - 9781626379060
AV  - U21.2 
U1  - 303.6/4 23
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Boulder : 
PB  - Lynne Rienner Publishers, 
KW  - Atrocities
KW  - Civil war
KW  - Moral and ethical aspects
KW  - Civil war-Moral and ethical aspects
KW  - Civilian war casualties
KW  - Civilians in war
KW  - Strategy
KW  - Bürgerkrieg
KW  - gnd
KW  - Psychologische Kriegführung
KW  - Theorie
KW  - Kriegführung
KW  - Kriegsziel
KW  - Bewaffneter Konflikt
KW  - Militärisches Objekt
KW  - Schutz
KW  - Zivilbevölkerung
KW  - Opfer
KW  - Sozialpsychologie
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Security (National & International)
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Tables and Figures --; Acknowledgments --; 1 Targeting Civilians in Civil Wars --; Part 1 What Do We Know About Indiscriminate Violence? --; 2 State Use of Indiscriminate Violence --; 3 Nonstate Use of Indiscriminate Violence --; 4 Conceptual Building Blocks --; 5 A Theory of Group-Selective Violence --; Part 2 How Does Indiscriminate Violence Work in Practice? --; 6 Assessing the Effects of Indiscriminate Violence --; 7 Group-Selective Violence Across History --; 8 Violence Against Civilians in Ethnic Wars --; Part 3 Conclusion --; 9 Does Group-Selective Violence Work? --; Appendixes --; Glossary --; Bibliography --; Index --; About the Book; restricted access
N2  - Conventional wisdom tells us that targeting civilians in civil wars makes little sense as a combat strategy. Yet, the indiscriminate violence continues. Why? To tackle this vexing question, Jürgen Brandsch looks closely at the on-the-ground impact of indiscriminate violence—and what he finds shows that there often is, in fact, a method to the madness. Making the provocative argument that slaughtering innocent civilians may be rational behavior on the part of the perpetrators, Brandsch provides an important piece in the puzzle of how to understand, and ultimately prevent, such atrocities
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781626379060
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781626379060
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781626379060/original
ER  -