Civilians and modern war: armed conflict and the ideology of violence

1. The place and plight of civilians in modern war / Daniel Rothbart, Karina V. Korostelina, and Mohammed D. Cherkaoui -- 2. The role of civilians in American war ideology / Richard E. Rubenstein -- 3. Devastating civilians at home : the plight of Crimean Tatars and Californians of Asian descent during World War II / Karina V. Korostelina -- 4. Military culture and civilian victimization : the Allied bombing of Germany in World War II / Alexander B. Downes -- 5. Double victims : the recruitment and treatment of child soldiers in Chechnya / Karina V. Korostelina and Juliia Kononenko -- 6. The politics of civilian identity / Daniel Rothbart -- 7. Israeli soldiers' perceptions of Palestinian civilians during the 2009 Gaza War / Neta Oren -- 8. Civilian vulnerability in asymmetric conflict : lessons from the second Lebanon and Gaza Wars / Michael I. Gross -- 9. In the shadow of soldiers : faceless victims in public media narrative / Mohammed D. Cherkaoui -- 10. Civilians, pundits, and the mediatized ideology / Mohammed D. Cherkaoui -- 11. Trans-regional military dimensions of civilian protection : a two-part problem with a two-part solution / Donald C.F. Daniel and Tromila Wheat -- 12. Civilians under the law : inequality, universalisms, and intersectionality as intervention / Susan F. Hirsch -- 13. The price of justice / Michael Miklaucic -- 14. Preventing genocide : towards systematic engagement by states / Andrea Bartoli and Testushi Ogata -- 15. Making amends : a new expectation for civilian losses in armed conflict / Sarah Holewinski -- 16. Conclusion : the road ahead / Daniel Rothbart, Karina V. Korostelina, and Mohammed D. Cherkaoui.

This book explores the issue of civilian devastation in modern warfare, focusing on the complex processes that effectively establish civilians' identity in times of war. Underpinning the physicality of war's tumult are structural forces that create landscapes of civilian vulnerability. Such forces operate in four sectors of modern warfare: nationalistic ideology, state-sponsored militaries, global media, and international institutions. Each sector promotes its own constructions of civilian identity in relation to militant combatants: constructions that prove lethal to the civilian noncombatant