The Origins of the Idea of Military Occupation Peter Stirk In 1844 the eminent jurist August Wilhelm Heffter lamented the common failure to clearly distinguish between conquest and occupation. Approximately thirty years earlier he had witnessed both occupation and...
Enforced Progress: Napoleon’s Occupation of Europe Michael Rowe, King’s College London The Revolutionary and Napoleonic period (c.1789 to 1815) is an important one in the history of occupations. True, the ‘revolutionary’ nature of the so-called Revolutionary Wars...
Toward a Global Interpretation of Military Government Anti-Fascism Campaigns Mikkel Dack, Rowan University Aldo L. Raffa, an Italian-born political science instructor at Georgetown University, was recruited by the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in 1942, and later...
The Age of Metamorphosis: An Introduction Camilo Erlichman and Félix Streicher, Maastricht University In Italo Calvino’s first novel, Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno (The Path to the Spiders’ Nest), published in 1947 and set in Liguria during the Second World War, Pin,...
The Great War’s Third Space: Military Occupations in Europe in the Era of the First World War Sophie De Schaepdrijver, Pennsylvania State University Military occupation was a major dimension of the First World War. As invasions pushed frontlines deep inside enemy...
The Changing Face of ‘Occupation Studies’ Jeremy E. Taylor, University of Nottingham While the recent US military withdrawal from Afghanistan has inspired much discussion about geopolitical power dynamics in the ‘Indo-Pacific’ and the Middle East, far less coverage of...
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