As one of the key concepts in International Relations (IR), the relative amnesia around the
origin and effects of sovereignty which lasted until the mid-1990s is quite striking …

This article investigates the military 'reunion'videos that proliferated in the United States
throughout the late 2000s and early 2010s. The typical video entails a returning soldier who …

Committing one's country to war is a grave decision. Governments often have to make tough
calls, but none are quite so painful as those that involve sending soldiers into harm's way, to …

Following the 2004 establishment of the World War II memorial in Washington DC, itself a
product of the collective re-commemoration of the so-called 'Greatest Generation'of WWII …

Like success at the individual level, ideas of “winning” and “victory” in war have reaffirmed
American exceptionalism, its place in the world, and its ontological security. This has been …

How does history relate to political memory? What politics emerges in the present and future
over the ways in which history is remembered and memorialised? We focus on three themes …

Research on civil war termination typically classifies conflict outcomes into homogeneous
categories. Civil wars are conventionally described as ending in 'victory'for one …

Victory has historically been regarded as the 'telos' or 'very object'of war. As one well-placed
commentator has noted, war is all about winning. It is baffling to note, then, that …

Military tattoos have recently become the latest genre of war art deployed by museums to
make war tangible to their visitors. These new war objects give rise to important temporal …

Two decades after the “war on terror” was first waged, there is little conceptual clarity about
what it means to win a war. Indeed, despite the burgeoning literature on endless war and …