Advanced search Subscribe to our newsletter and you'll continuously be informed about our new books, series and journals. You can customize this e-mail newsletter to your particular needs and interests. Newsletters include special discount codes. To subscribe or change existing preferences press the subscribe button	Series and Journals War, Virtual War and Society. The Challenge to Communities. WILSON, Andrew R. and Mark L. PERRY (Eds.) Amsterdam/New York, NY, 2008, XII, 170 pp. Pb: 978-90-420-2347-5 € 37 / US$ 50 Series: At the Interface/Probing the Boundaries 44 Rarely do academics and policymakers have the opportunity to sit down together and contemplate the broadest consequences of war. Our comprehension has traditionally been limited to war’s causes, execution, promotion, opposition, and immediate political and economic ends and aftermath. But just as public health researchers are becoming aware of unexpected, subtle and powerful consequences of human economic action, we are beginning to realize that war has many short- and long-term consequences that we poorly understand but cannot afford to neglect. These papers contribute to a growing discourse among academics, scholars and lawmakers that is questioning and rethinking the nature and purpose of war. By studying the effects of war on communities we can more readily understand and anticipate the consequences of present and future conflicts. Such an understanding might well enable us to plan and execute military action with a more clearly defined set of post-war goals in mind. Whereas traditionally a government at war seeks the defeat of the adversary as its primary and often sole aim, through a clearer understanding of war’s effects other aims will also become prominent. War, like surgery, could gradually become more refined, could minimize damage in ways that are currently unimaginable, and could involve an increasingly heavy responsibility to prepare for and facilitate reconstruction. Projects such as this volume are, of course, only the beginning. The more we understand the evolving nature of war, the better prepared we will be to protect communities from its harmful effects. Introduction Part I: World War I Dorothea FLOTHOW: “Train Yourselves to Defend Your Country”: British Children’s Novels in the First World War John C. HORN: Through Comic Eyes: Punch, the British Army, and Pictorial Humour on the Western Front, 1914 – 1918 Moni L. RIEZ: Budapest and the Great War: An Overview Part II: Victims Brigitte LE JUEZ: War Survivors’ Fractured Identities in Hiroshima mon amour Agnès MAILLOT: Victims and Perpetrators: Memory and Reconciliation in Northern Ireland Part III: Cyberwar Markku JOKISIPILÄ: E-Jihad, Cyberterrorism and Freedom of Speech Mark L. PERRY: The New Minutemen: Civil Society, the Military and Cyberspace Part IV: Parallels Albrecht M. FRITZSCHE: On the Similarities between Business and War Andrew MEYER and Andrew R. WILSON: Inventing the General: A Re-appraisal of the Sunzi bingfa Notes on Contributors	Tijnmuiden 7 1046 AK Amsterdam The Netherlands T: +31-20-611 48 21 F: +31-20-447 29 79 248 East 44th Street - 2nd floor New York, NY 10017 USA T: 1-800-225-3998 F: 1-800-853-3881 Toll-free in the USA info@rodopi.nl