Understanding the New Proxy Wars

Peter Bergen, Candace Rondeaux, Daniel Rothenberg, David Sterman

• Publisher: Hurst Publishers
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9781787387157
• eBook ISBN: 9781787389755
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Geopolitics
• Index: Politics & International Relations

Proxy warfare will shape the conflicts of the twenty-first century for the foreseeable future. Yet the popular understanding of proxy wars remains largely shaped by the experience of the Cold War. In reality, in the Greater Middle East and its periphery today, the growing power of regional states and non-state actors, combined with the proliferation of new technology, has reshaped proxy conflicts, in an increasingly multipolar and interconnected environment.

In this collected volume, a range of researchers examine what constitutes proxy warfare and provide new insight into how these wars are waged, in contexts stretching from Ukraine to North Africa and Syria to Afghanistan. The volume draws upon research, surveys and interviews conducted in Syria, Iraq, Libya and Ukraine, as well as examining the propaganda output of those involved in these countries’ wars. In doing so, Understanding the New Proxy Wars helps reveal both the continuities and the differences between recent conflicts and those of times past.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Figures and Tables
• About the Editors and Contributors
• Introduction
• Part I: Proxy Warfare in the Early Twenty-First Century
• Part II: Battlegrounds
• Part III: Strategies
• Acknowledgments
• Notes
• Index
• Back Cover