Sibylle Scheiper
Biographic Data
| ID | 3086725 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sibylle Scheiper |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sibylle |
| FAMILY NAME | Scheiper |
| SIGNATURE | SCHEIPER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of St Andrews |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8080-3337 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 115 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck’s Career as a Colonial Officer: Learning the ‘Colonial Way of War’
Small War as Global War: Paul Von Lettow-Vorbeck’s Campaign in German East Africa, 1914-1918
This article discusses Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, who commanded the Schutztruppe for German East Africa between 1914 and 1918, as a strategic thinker who clearly perceived the rupture that the First World War implied for colonial governance and the use of military violence. While local resistance to colonisation had been the predominant security concern before 1914, the globalisation of the First World War meant that many colonies became recruiting…
Strachan on Clausewitz: Setting Standards for Research and Study
This article provides an appraisal of Hew Strachan’s impact on Clausewitz research since the early 2000s. It highlights that owing to the complexity of Clausewitz’s oeuvre and its publication history, scholarship on Clausewitz has to live up to demanding standards in order to be compelling. Strachan’s research on Clausewitz provides not only a revisionist reinterpretation that usher our understanding of the Prussian general into the post-Cold War…
Do not despair at your fate’: Carl von Clausewitz in French Captivity, 1806–1807
Carl von Clausewitz’s time in French captivity is well documented, but has never been studied in its own right. However, it is both fascinating and relevant, as Clausewitz’s experience of captivity took place against the backdrop of the nationalization of war and the concomitant politicization of prisoners in war. Clausewitz framed his observations by contrasting the ‘French’ and the ‘German’ national characters. While Germany as a political iden…
Negotiating Sovereignty and Human Rights: International Society and the International Criminal Court
The most beautiful of wars’: Carl von Clausewitz and small wars
Carl von Clausewitz was both an avid analyst of small wars and people’s war and, during the wars of liberation, a practitioner of small war. While Clausewitz scholars have increasingly recognised the centrality of small wars for Clausewitz’s thought, the sources and inspirations of his writings on small wars have remained understudied. This article contextualises Clausewitz’s thought on small wars and people’s war in the tradition of German philo…
Irregular Auxiliaries after 1945
Collaboration with native auxiliaries in wars in the peripheries of the international system is an age-old practice, the relevance of which is likely to increase in the twenty-first century. Yet, the parameters of such collaboration are understudied. This article aims to contribute to the nascent yet fragmentary scholarship on the use of native auxiliaries. It identifies three intellectual templates of the collaboration between Western regular fo…
Clausewitz on Small War
Clausewitz scholars have long awaited Christopher Daase and James W. Davis’s translation of Clausewitz’s writings on small wars. The work on this project was begun in 2006. Its intention, according
Unlawful Combatants: A Genealogy of the Irregular Fighter
The book investigates the emergence and the development of irregular fighters, such as guerrillas, rebels, insurgents, and terrorists throughout the history of modern war. It presents a historically-based critique of the twenty-first century notion of the irregular fighter as an 'unlawful combatant'.
Wars in the Colonies
This chapter demonstrates that a large degree of continuity and permeability existed between wars in the core and in the peripheries of the international system with respect to anti-irregular discourses and practices. The colonies were neither the exclusive site of irregular warfare nor were they a testing ground for anti-irregular tactics. Rather, practices and approaches travelled back and forth between Europe and the colonies. However, anti-ir…
The Use of Camps in Colonial Warfare
This article provides a comparative historical overview of the use of camps in colonial warfare. It investigates two phases in the evolution of camps: the first generation of camps that emerged around 1900 in Cuba, the Philippines, South Africa and German Southwest Africa and post-Second World War camps in the wars of decolonisation in Malaya, Kenya and Algeria. It posits that the history of camps in colonial warfare is characterised by an evolut…
Auxiliaries at War in the Middle East
If the West wants to contain or rout the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, it will have to rely on local allies in some way. The history of modern war suggests three ways in which such cooperation has previously been problematic
Unlawful Combatants’: The West's Treatment of Irregular Fighters in the ‘War on Terror’
Counterinsurgency or irregular warfare? Historiography and the study of 'small wars
This article argues that the history of irregular warfare provides a valuable analytical and critical perspective for the study of counterinsurgency campaigns and counterinsurgency doctrine. A focus on the history of irregular warfare highlights the close relationship between warfare in Europe and in the colonies. Moreover, it enables us to identify more exactly the intersection of multiple factors that lead to an escalation of violence in small …
Is the Law of Armed Conflict Outdated
The law of armed conflict has often been described as outdated and ill suited to military conflicts in the twenty-first century. Both academics and practitioners have argued that today's wars tend to be asymmetric conflicts between states and nonstate actors, whereas the law of armed conflict was made with a view to symmetrical interstate war. This article challenges that notion
Discrimination in Aerial Bombing: An Enduring Norm in the 20th Century
The role airpower can and should play in current and future armed conflicts is contested. The 1990s saw overwhelming optimism about the ability of airpower to win wars by itself and to facilitate c
Forum: Europe, Guantanamo and the ‘War on Terror’: An Exchange
In the February–March 2009 issue of Survival (‘Closing Guantanamo: Is Europe Ready?’, vol. 51, no. 1, pp. 5–12) Sibylle Scheipers discussed the role of US President Barack Obama's moves to reform the detention system as a step towards renewing close transatlantic ties and facilitating transatlantic cooperation. But she also argued that it poses a difficult challenge to Europeans. Survival invited comments from three distinguished experts, and Sch…
Closing Guantanamo: Is Europe Ready
Empowering Africa: Normative power in EU–Africa relations
From the introduction]. In this article, we will focus on two cases in which the EU attempts to advance its values internationally. First, the EU promotes the International Criminal Court (ICC) within the framework of its Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP), thereby emphasizing its commitment to human rights. Secondly, the EU aims to disseminate the norm of environmental protection by supporting the Kyoto Protocol. We will provide empirical…
Civilization vs toleration: The new UN Human Rights Council and the normative foundations of the international order
Normative Power Europe: A Credible Utopia
Studies on the international identity of the EU have stressed the normative feature of European foreign policy. At the same time, scholars have pointed out that the inconsistency between the EU's rhetoric and behaviour and the lack of reflexivity undermines its credibility. How does reflexivity affect collective identity? To what extent does the EU's utopian rhetoric affect its credibility as a normative power? In order to address these questions…
Normative Power Europe: A Credible Utopia
Studies on the international identity of the EU have stressed the normative feature of European foreign policy. At the same time, scholars have pointed out that the inconsistency between the EU's rhetoric and behaviour and the lack of reflexivity undermines its credibility. How does reflexivity affect collective identity? To what extent does the EU's utopian rhetoric affect its credibility as a normative power? In order to address these questions…
Empowering Africa: Normative power in EU–Africa relations
From the introduction]. In this article, we will focus on two cases in which the EU attempts to advance its values internationally. First, the EU promotes the International Criminal Court (ICC) within the framework of its Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP), thereby emphasizing its commitment to human rights. Secondly, the EU aims to disseminate the norm of environmental protection by supporting the Kyoto Protocol. We will provide empirical…
The Use of Camps in Colonial Warfare
This article provides a comparative historical overview of the use of camps in colonial warfare. It investigates two phases in the evolution of camps: the first generation of camps that emerged around 1900 in Cuba, the Philippines, South Africa and German Southwest Africa and post-Second World War camps in the wars of decolonisation in Malaya, Kenya and Algeria. It posits that the history of camps in colonial warfare is characterised by an evolut…
Counterinsurgency or irregular warfare? Historiography and the study of 'small wars
This article argues that the history of irregular warfare provides a valuable analytical and critical perspective for the study of counterinsurgency campaigns and counterinsurgency doctrine. A focus on the history of irregular warfare highlights the close relationship between warfare in Europe and in the colonies. Moreover, it enables us to identify more exactly the intersection of multiple factors that lead to an escalation of violence in small …
Irregular Auxiliaries after 1945
Collaboration with native auxiliaries in wars in the peripheries of the international system is an age-old practice, the relevance of which is likely to increase in the twenty-first century. Yet, the parameters of such collaboration are understudied. This article aims to contribute to the nascent yet fragmentary scholarship on the use of native auxiliaries. It identifies three intellectual templates of the collaboration between Western regular fo…
The most beautiful of wars’: Carl von Clausewitz and small wars
Carl von Clausewitz was both an avid analyst of small wars and people’s war and, during the wars of liberation, a practitioner of small war. While Clausewitz scholars have increasingly recognised the centrality of small wars for Clausewitz’s thought, the sources and inspirations of his writings on small wars have remained understudied. This article contextualises Clausewitz’s thought on small wars and people’s war in the tradition of German philo…
Civilization vs toleration: The new UN Human Rights Council and the normative foundations of the international order
Do not despair at your fate’: Carl von Clausewitz in French Captivity, 1806–1807
Carl von Clausewitz’s time in French captivity is well documented, but has never been studied in its own right. However, it is both fascinating and relevant, as Clausewitz’s experience of captivity took place against the backdrop of the nationalization of war and the concomitant politicization of prisoners in war. Clausewitz framed his observations by contrasting the ‘French’ and the ‘German’ national characters. While Germany as a political iden…
Auxiliaries at War in the Middle East
If the West wants to contain or rout the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, it will have to rely on local allies in some way. The history of modern war suggests three ways in which such cooperation has previously been problematic
Civilization vs toleration: The new UN Human Rights Council and the normative foundations of the international order
Normative Power Europe: A Credible Utopia
Studies on the international identity of the EU have stressed the normative feature of European foreign policy. At the same time, scholars have pointed out that the inconsistency between the EU's rhetoric and behaviour and the lack of reflexivity undermines its credibility. How does reflexivity affect collective identity? To what extent does the EU's utopian rhetoric affect its credibility as a normative power? In order to address these questions…
Empowering Africa: Normative power in EU–Africa relations
From the introduction]. In this article, we will focus on two cases in which the EU attempts to advance its values internationally. First, the EU promotes the International Criminal Court (ICC) within the framework of its Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP), thereby emphasizing its commitment to human rights. Secondly, the EU aims to disseminate the norm of environmental protection by supporting the Kyoto Protocol. We will provide empirical…
Forum: Europe, Guantanamo and the ‘War on Terror’: An Exchange
In the February–March 2009 issue of Survival (‘Closing Guantanamo: Is Europe Ready?’, vol. 51, no. 1, pp. 5–12) Sibylle Scheipers discussed the role of US President Barack Obama's moves to reform the detention system as a step towards renewing close transatlantic ties and facilitating transatlantic cooperation. But she also argued that it poses a difficult challenge to Europeans. Survival invited comments from three distinguished experts, and Sch…
Closing Guantanamo: Is Europe Ready
Discrimination in Aerial Bombing: An Enduring Norm in the 20th Century
The role airpower can and should play in current and future armed conflicts is contested. The 1990s saw overwhelming optimism about the ability of airpower to win wars by itself and to facilitate c
Is the Law of Armed Conflict Outdated
The law of armed conflict has often been described as outdated and ill suited to military conflicts in the twenty-first century. Both academics and practitioners have argued that today's wars tend to be asymmetric conflicts between states and nonstate actors, whereas the law of armed conflict was made with a view to symmetrical interstate war. This article challenges that notion
Unlawful Combatants’: The West's Treatment of Irregular Fighters in the ‘War on Terror’
Counterinsurgency or irregular warfare? Historiography and the study of 'small wars
This article argues that the history of irregular warfare provides a valuable analytical and critical perspective for the study of counterinsurgency campaigns and counterinsurgency doctrine. A focus on the history of irregular warfare highlights the close relationship between warfare in Europe and in the colonies. Moreover, it enables us to identify more exactly the intersection of multiple factors that lead to an escalation of violence in small …
Unlawful Combatants: A Genealogy of the Irregular Fighter
The book investigates the emergence and the development of irregular fighters, such as guerrillas, rebels, insurgents, and terrorists throughout the history of modern war. It presents a historically-based critique of the twenty-first century notion of the irregular fighter as an 'unlawful combatant'.
Wars in the Colonies
This chapter demonstrates that a large degree of continuity and permeability existed between wars in the core and in the peripheries of the international system with respect to anti-irregular discourses and practices. The colonies were neither the exclusive site of irregular warfare nor were they a testing ground for anti-irregular tactics. Rather, practices and approaches travelled back and forth between Europe and the colonies. However, anti-ir…
The Use of Camps in Colonial Warfare
This article provides a comparative historical overview of the use of camps in colonial warfare. It investigates two phases in the evolution of camps: the first generation of camps that emerged around 1900 in Cuba, the Philippines, South Africa and German Southwest Africa and post-Second World War camps in the wars of decolonisation in Malaya, Kenya and Algeria. It posits that the history of camps in colonial warfare is characterised by an evolut…
Auxiliaries at War in the Middle East
If the West wants to contain or rout the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, it will have to rely on local allies in some way. The history of modern war suggests three ways in which such cooperation has previously been problematic
The most beautiful of wars’: Carl von Clausewitz and small wars
Carl von Clausewitz was both an avid analyst of small wars and people’s war and, during the wars of liberation, a practitioner of small war. While Clausewitz scholars have increasingly recognised the centrality of small wars for Clausewitz’s thought, the sources and inspirations of his writings on small wars have remained understudied. This article contextualises Clausewitz’s thought on small wars and people’s war in the tradition of German philo…
Irregular Auxiliaries after 1945
Collaboration with native auxiliaries in wars in the peripheries of the international system is an age-old practice, the relevance of which is likely to increase in the twenty-first century. Yet, the parameters of such collaboration are understudied. This article aims to contribute to the nascent yet fragmentary scholarship on the use of native auxiliaries. It identifies three intellectual templates of the collaboration between Western regular fo…
Clausewitz on Small War
Clausewitz scholars have long awaited Christopher Daase and James W. Davis’s translation of Clausewitz’s writings on small wars. The work on this project was begun in 2006. Its intention, according
Negotiating Sovereignty and Human Rights: International Society and the International Criminal Court
Do not despair at your fate’: Carl von Clausewitz in French Captivity, 1806–1807
Carl von Clausewitz’s time in French captivity is well documented, but has never been studied in its own right. However, it is both fascinating and relevant, as Clausewitz’s experience of captivity took place against the backdrop of the nationalization of war and the concomitant politicization of prisoners in war. Clausewitz framed his observations by contrasting the ‘French’ and the ‘German’ national characters. While Germany as a political iden…
Strachan on Clausewitz: Setting Standards for Research and Study
This article provides an appraisal of Hew Strachan’s impact on Clausewitz research since the early 2000s. It highlights that owing to the complexity of Clausewitz’s oeuvre and its publication history, scholarship on Clausewitz has to live up to demanding standards in order to be compelling. Strachan’s research on Clausewitz provides not only a revisionist reinterpretation that usher our understanding of the Prussian general into the post-Cold War…
Small War as Global War: Paul Von Lettow-Vorbeck’s Campaign in German East Africa, 1914-1918
This article discusses Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, who commanded the Schutztruppe for German East Africa between 1914 and 1918, as a strategic thinker who clearly perceived the rupture that the First World War implied for colonial governance and the use of military violence. While local resistance to colonisation had been the predominant security concern before 1914, the globalisation of the First World War meant that many colonies became recruiting…
Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck’s Career as a Colonial Officer: Learning the ‘Colonial Way of War’
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