Transforming Warriors

Peter Haldén is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Swedish Defence University (SDU) in Stockholm. He is the author of Stability without Statehood (2011), Geopolitics of Climate Change (2007) and co-editor of New Agendas in Statebuilding: Hybridity, Contingency and History (2013).Peter Jackson is Professor at the department of History of Religions at Stockholm University. He is the author of The Transformations of Helen: Indo-European Myth and the Roots of the Trojan Cycle (2007), and editor of Philosophy and the End of Sacrifice: Disengaging Ritual in Ancient India, Greece and Beyond (2015).

• 1. Introduction. Symbolic and Mythological Perspectives on War and Peace join the Archaic with the Modern, Peter Haldén and Peter Jackson2. A Portrait of the Warrior as a Beast: Hunter, Man, and Animal in Sophocles Trachiniae and Schwarzenegger’s Predator, Johan Tralau3. Cycles of the Wolf: Unmasking the Young Warrior in Europe’s Past, Peter Jackson4. "Laughing I shall die!" The Total Transformations of Berserks and Ulfhednar in Old Norse Society, Andreas Nordberg and Frederik Wallenstein5. Professionalization of Transformation: From Knights to Officers in the Renaissance, Gorm Harste6. Transformation into Manhood: Sex, Violence and the Making of Warriors, Women and Victims in Early Modern Europe, Maria Sjöberg7. Japanese Warrior Transformations: Bushidō as the Continuation of Death by other Means, Dan Öberg8. Mystical and Modern Transformations in the Liberian Civil War, Ilmari Käikhö9. Transformation into Nature: Swedish Army Ranger Rites of Passage, Jan Angstrom 10. From Total to Minimal Transformation: German Oaths of Loyalty 1871-2014, Peter Haldén11. The Warrior on the Edge of Tomorrow, Christopher Coker12. The Haunted Road: Failed Transformations and the Return from War or, A Historical Sociology of War Veterans, Gorm Harste13. Conclusions. The Transformations of the Future, Peter Haldén