The Politics of Military Occupation

Military occupation is a recurrent feature of modern international politics and yet has received little attention from political scientists. This book sets out to remedy this neglect, offering: an account of military occupation as a form of governmentan assessment of key trends in the development of military occupations over the last two centuriesan explanation the conceptual and practical difficulties encountered by occupiersexamples drawn from, amongst others, the First and Second World Wars,