This course will explore the different attitudes, perceptions and discourses of western countries on war since 1990. The course will briefly review the history of the conflicts in Iraq, the Balkans, Afghanistan and Libya and turn on to the analysis of the relationship between politics, society and the armed forces. It will analyze different national military and political traditions, examine remembrance and public discourses in the media. Primary sources will include newspapers, books, TV-documentaries, historical monuments and comics. These sources will unearth if and how the discourse about war and the military has changed since 1990 on a transnational level. Furthermore we will explore the extent to which value shifts in contemporary society have changed the approach to modern wars. close