Jed Odermatt (Leuven): Between the Law and Reality: “New Wars” and Internationalised Armed Conflict. Richard Adams (UNSW) and Chris Barrie (ANU): The Bureaucratization of War: Moral Challenges Exemplified by the Covert Lethal Drone. Sam Osborne (ANU): Reining In Repugnancy: The Doctrine of Targeted Killing. Bruno S. Frey (Zeppelin): Well-Being and War. Lucy Fisher reviews Brains and Bullets: How Psychology Wins Wars by Leo Murray. Mark Thompson on the rules of drone warfare: Sometimes what's written down isn't always what happens. Michael Bonura reviews War in Social Thought: Hobbes to the Present by Hans Joas and Wolfgang Knobl. Count on war to build a society: History reportedly is written by the victors — in the future, those accounts may be written in equation form and not sentences. Greta Morris reviews Imperial Designs: War, Humiliation and the Making of History by Deepak Tripathi. Erik Voeten interviews Peter W. Singer, co-author of Cybersecurity and Cyberwar: What Everyone Needs to Know. From FDL, a book salon on War Time: An Idea, Its History, Its Consequences by Mary L. Dudziak; and a book salon on War No More: The Case for Abolition by David Swanson. Bas van der Vossen reviews The Ethics of Preventive War. Does war have its own logic after all? Antulio J. Echevarria wonders. David Kilcullen on how warfare is changing in 3 ways. Peter Turchin on war before civilization (and more). Ian Morris on once and future warfare. Humanity is becoming increasingly less violent, with one exception — religious violence.
