Captivity in War during the Twentieth Century

The Forgotten Diplomatic Role of Transnational Actors

Marcel Berni, Tamara Cubito (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

IX, 182 Seiten

2022 | 1st ed. 2021
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-65097-1 (ISBN)

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This book offers new international perspectives on captivity in wartime during the twentieth century. It explores how global institutions and practices with regard to captives mattered, how they evolved and most importantly, how they influenced the treatment of captives. From the beginning of the twentieth century, international organisations, neutral nations and other actors with no direct involvement in the respective wars often had to fill in to support civilian as well as military captives and to supervise their treatment. This edited volume puts these actors, rather than the captives themselves, at the centre in order to assess comparatively their contributions to wartime captivity. Taking a global approach, it shows that transnational bodies - whether non-governmental organisations, neutral states or individuals - played an essential role in dealing with captives in wartime. Chapters cover both the largest wars, such as the two World Wars, but also lesser-known conflicts, tohighlight how captives were placed at the centre of transnational negotiations.

lt;p> Marcel Berni is a Research and Teaching Fellow at the Swiss Military Academy at ETH Zurich, Switzerland. He specialises in the history of the Cold War. His dissertation on the treatment of communist captives during Vietnam's American War has won the André Corvisier Prize.

Tamara Cubito is a Research and Teaching Fellow at the Swiss Military Academy at ETH Zurich, Switzerland. She recently completed her PhD on the treatment of enemy aliens in the British colonies during the First World War.

Chapter 1. The Diplomatic Role of Transnational Actors in Wartime Captivity; Marcel Berni, Tamara Cubito.- Chapter 2. "Any unfavourable condition or untoward circumstance will receive immediate attention": American Consuls' Visits to British Colonial Internment Camps of the Great War; Tamara Cubito.- Chapter 3. "Heraus mit unseren Gefangenen!" The German Home Front and the International Campaign for Prisoner of War Repatriation, 1918-1919; Brian K. Feltman.- Chapter 4. An Uneasy Balance: International Relief Efforts in the Chaco War; Robert Niebuhr.- Chapter 5. Japanese Civilian Internees in New Caledonia: A Gap Between the Protecting Powers and the ICRC; Rowena Ward.- Chapter 6. Japanese Prisoners of War, the American-Soviet Conflict, and the Role of Repatriated War Veterans in the Early Cold War in East Asia; Frank Jacob.- Chapter 7. The ICRC and Communist Captives during Vietnam's American War; Marcel Berni.- Chapter 8. Biafra's Captives: The "Oilmen Incident" and International Diplomacy in the Nigerian Civil War; Onianwa Oluchuchukwu Ignatus.- Chapter 9. 90,000 Prisoners of War as Bargaining Chip: Bangladesh, India and Pakistan 1972 to 1974; Amit Das Gupta.

"The contribution of this book to the field of war captivity studies is much welcomed. Not only do the chapters discuss the well-known cases of the two world wars, but they also include other armed conflicts that are rarely explored by captivity historians. The book has the great merit of showing that captivity and internment policies during the twentieth century were deployed in different areas around the world ... ." (Jean-Michel Turcotte, H-Net Reviews, h-net.org, May, 2024)

Erscheinungsdatum	31.08.2022
Zusatzinfo	IX, 182 p. 2 illus., 1 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	255 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte
Schlagworte	conflict • diplomats • International Law • International Organisations • modern warfare • Neutral States • non-governmental organisations • POWs • Prisoners of war • Relief efforts • World War I • World War II
ISBN-10	3-030-65097-9 / 3030650979
ISBN-13	978-3-030-65097-1 / 9783030650971
Zustand	Neuware