Experiencing war: a challenge for international relations

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¹ Tarak Barkawi (2004, 19) has made the related point that ‘war is a harsh teacher’.

² See, for example, MacKenzie (2012), Baaz and Stern (2013), D'Costa (2006), McSorley (2013), Hearn (2012) and Sjoberg and Via (2010).

³ Elshtain explains that the words in inverted commas are those of Bradley Klein, her PhD student at the time, who later wrote Strategic studies and world order: the global politics of deterrence (1994).

⁴ See Elina Penttinen's (2013) discussion of healing in the midst of extreme violence.

⁵ Read off a wall description of the international response to the Rwandan Genocide at the Kigali Memorial Centre, 6 January 2013.

⁶ Rwanda became the second country (after Mozambique) admitted to the Commonwealth without any former colonial or constitutional links with the United Kingdom. This is not to say that the Commonwealth or the British government can claim a clean slate in dealings with Africa before, during and after the colonial period (for example, its military support to Nigeria to fight against the breakaway state of Biafra in the 1960s).

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Christine Sylvester

Christine Sylvester is Professor of Political Science, University of Connecticut and of Global Studies, Gothenburg University. Her recent research activities focus on war and include: directing the Experiencing War project; editing a series with Routledge on War, Politics, Experience; and two books for the series (Experiencing war, edited, 2011, and War as experience: contributions from IR and feminist analysis, 2013). Email: [email protected]