Cultural Heritage in Modern Conflict

<p>This edited volume offers an in-depth study of heritage and warfare from the perspective of defence studies.</p><p>The book focuses on how in different contexts heritage can be a catalyst and target of conflict an obstacle to stabilisation and a driver of peace-building. It documents the changing role of heritage – in terms of both exploitation and protection – in various military capabilities theatres and operations. With particular concern for the areas of subthreshold and hybrid warfare stabilisation cultural relationships human security and disaster response the volume reviews the historical relationship between heritage and armed conflict including the roles of embedded archaeologists safeguarding of ethics and dislodgement and destruction of material culture. Various chapters in the book also demonstrate the value of understanding how state and non-state actors exploit cultural heritage across different defence postures and within both subthreshold and proxy warfare in order to achieve military political economic and diplomatic advantages.</p><p>This book will be of interest to students of defence studies heritage studies anthropology and security studies in general as well as military practitioners.</p>