Secondary Literature on the Post-Cold War Period

This collection includes secondary literature on the themes covered by the Oxford Handbook on Gender, War and the Western World since 1600. We have also added select secondary literature on regions and themes the handbook does not cover. The majority of the texts are in English with some texts in French, German or Russian.

The most important wars for this period include:

  • Wars in former Yugoslavia (1991–99)
  • U.S. Wars in the Middle East (1990–)
  • Wars of Globalization
  • UN Peacekeeping / New Humanitarianism

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McKay, Ian, and Jamie Swift. Warrior Nation: Rebranding Canada in an Age of Anxiety. Toronto: Between the Lines, 2012.
Meisler, Stanley. United Nations: A History. 2nd ed. New York: Grove Press, 2011.
Melvern, Linda. Conspiracy to Murder: The Rwandan Genocide. Revised Edition. London: Verso, 2004.
Mertus, Julie A., and Judy A. Benjamin. War's Offensive on Women: The Humanitarian Challenge in Bosnia, Kosovo, and Afghanistan. West Hartford, CT: Kumarian Press, 2000.
Mestrovic, Stjepan Gabriel. Rules of Engagement? A Social Anatomy of an American War Crime: Operation Iron Triangle, Iraq. New York: Algora Publishing, 2008.
Mitchell, Brian. Women in the Military: Flirting with Disaster. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing Inc.,, 1998.
Močnik, Nena. Sexuality after War Rape: From Narrative to Embodied Research. London: Routledge, 2018.
Mojzes, Paul. Balkan Genocides: Holocaust and Ethnic Cleansing in the Twentieth Century In Studies in genocide : religion, history, and human rights; Variation: Studies in genocide. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2011.
Monahan, Evelyn, and Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee. A Few Good Women: America's military women from World War I to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. New York, U.S.A.: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.
Nachtigall, Andrea. Gendering 9/11: Medien, Macht und Geschlecht im Kontext des "War on Terror". Bielefeld: Transkript-Verlag, 2012.
Naimark, Norman M. Fires of Hatred: Ethnic Cleansing in Twentieth-Century Europe. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001.
Nikolic-Ristanovic, Vesna. Women, Violence, and War: Wartime Victimization of Refugees in the Balkans. Budapest: Central European University Press, 2000.
Noakes, Lucy. War and the British: Gender and National Identity, 1939-91. London; New York: I. B. Tauris, 1998.
Nye, Joseph S. The Paradox of American Power: Why the World's only Superpower can't go it Alone. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2002.
O'Connell, Mary Ellen. What Is War? An Investigation in the Wake of 9/11. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2012.
Okros, Alan Charles, Sarah Hill, and Franklin C. Pinch. Between 9/11 and Kandahar: Attitudes of Canadian Forces Officers in Transition. Kingston, ON: Queen's University Defence Management Studies Program, 2008.
Oliver, Kelly. Women as Weapons of War: Iraq, Sex, and the Media. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007.
Olsson, Louise, and Torunn L. Tryggestad. Women and International Peacekeeping. London: Routledge, 2001.
Orford, Anne. Reading Humanitarian Intervention: Human Rights and the Use of Force in International Law. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
O’Reilly, Maria. "Contextualizing Gendered Agency in War and Peace: Gender Justice and Women’s Activism in Historical Perspective." In Gendered Agency in War and Peace, 35-62. Vol. 1. London: Queen Mary University of London, 2018.
Pankhurst, Donna. "Sexual Violence in War." In Gender Matters in Global Politics: A Feminist Introduction to International Relations, edited by Laura J. Shepherd, 159-170. London; New York: Routledge, 2014.
Paoletti, Ciro. A Military History of Italy. Westport, CT: Praeger Security International, 2008.
Parenti, Michael. To Kill a Nation: The Attack on Yugoslavia. London: Verso, 2000.
Paulson, Daryl S., and Stanley Krippner. Haunted by Combat: Understanding PTSD in War Veterans Including Women, Reservists, and Those Coming Back from Iraq. Westport, CT: Praeger Security International, 2007.
Peebles, Stacey L. Welcome to the Suck: Narrating the American Soldier's Experience in Iraq. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2011.
Peled, Yoav, Noah Lewin-Epstein, Gai Mundlaḳ, and Jean L. Cohen. Democratic Citizenship and War. New York; London: Routledge, 2011.
Phillips, Kathy J. Manipulating Masculinity: War and Gender in Modern British and American Literature. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Phillips, Joshua E. S. None of Us Were Like This Before: American Soldiers and Torture. London: Verso, 2010.
Phillips, Kimberley L. War! What Is It Good For?: Black Freedom Struggles and the U.S. Military from World War II to Iraq. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2012.
Ponzanesi, Sandra. Gender, Globalization, and Violence: Postcolonial Conflict Zones. New York: Routledge, 2014.
Porta, Donatella Della, Hidde Donker, Bogumila Hall, Emin Poljarevic, and Daniel P. Ritter. Social Movements and Civil War: When Protests for Democratization Fail. New York: Routledge, 2017.
Quataert, Jean H. "War-Making and Restraint by Law: The Formative Years, 1864-1914." In The Cambridge History of War, edited by Roger Chickering, Dennis Showalter and Hans van de Ven, 142-162. Vol. 4: War in the Modern World, 1850–2005. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.

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