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The Changing Character of War unites scholars from the disciplines of history, politics, law, and philosophy to ask in what ways the character of war today has changed from war in the past, and how the wars of today differ from each other. It discusses who fights, why they fight, and how they fight.
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Hew Strachan is Chichele Professor of the History of War and Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford University. He is also Director of the Oxford Program on the Changing Character of War.
Sibylle Scheipers is Director of Studies for the Changing Character of War Program at Oxford University. Previously she held a postdoctoral fellowship at Chatham House, London.
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