Avery Plaw is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth. He specializes in political theory and international relations with a particular interest in strategic studies. He is the author of Targeting Terrorists: A License to Kill? and the editor of Frontiers of Diversity: Explorations in Contemporary Pluralism.

• AcknowledgementsAvery Plaw and Axel Augé: Introduction: The Transformations of WarNew Concepts of War and TerrorNick Mansfield: Fighting for Peace: From the Social War to Armed DemocracyJason Edwards: Foucault and the Continuation of WarBob Brecher: Why There is No Such Thing as Political TerrorismConfronting the New Wars: Law, Security and DiplomacyAvery Plaw: The Legality of Targeted Killing as an Instrument of War: The Case of the US Targeting of Qaed Salim Sinan al-HarethiBenjamin Rampp: Insecurity by Impreciseness: Towards a Specific Concept of SecurityStuart Murray: Towards an Enhanced Understanding of Diplomacy as the Business of PeaceNew Wars, History and Cultural ChangeMustafa Serdar Palabıyık: The Changing Ottoman Perception of War: From the Foundation of the Empire to Its DisintegrationPamela Chrabieh Badine: Youth and Peace: Alternative Voices in LebanonTim Markham: The Correspondent’s Experience of WarWaging the New WarsTimothy D. Hoyt: ‘Like a Phoenix from the Ashes’: The IRA as a Multi-Generational Movement and its Relevance for the War on TerrorGraeme Goldsworthy, Toby Chesson and Erica Pasini: Tiger, Tiger Burning BrightBård Mæland: From Manifest Degradation to Latent Anticipation: Military Boredom in the First World War and Afghanistan