Proxy Wars from a Global Perspective

Non-State Actors and Armed Conflicts

Pawel Bernat,Cüneyt Gürer,Cyprian Aleksander Kozera

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2023
• ISBN:
  9781350369290
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Politik & Internationale Beziehungen
• Subtopic: Nationale Sicherheit

Proxy warfare is a growing international phenomenon. Although states have used proxies in armed conflicts for centuries, evolving regional and global security architecture is now forcing states to radically change the way contemporary conflicts are fought.
Based on ten case studies, this reassesses exactly how these changing global and systemic factors are shaping the ways in which states use non-state actors as proxies in their armed conflicts.
Examining the use of proxy warfare worldwide, focusing on the last decade's conflicts, this volume brings together contributions from scholars of international relations and global security studies in order to explore cases of armed conflict of particular regional and global significance. These include recent developments in the conflict in Israel and Palestine, the Central African Republic, Libya, Mali, Central Asia, Syria, Ukraine, Nagorno-Karabakh, Brazil and Yemen. By drawing on both theory and practise, it offers a re-evaluation of contemporary understanding of "outsourced warfare", with policy implications for how we understand and negotiate with states using proxy warfare in the future.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title Page
• Title Page
• Contents
• List of Abbreviations
• List of Contributors
• Introduction: The Necessity for a Global Perspective on Proxy Warfare
• Part One Theoretical and Historical Framework
• 1 Toward Conceptualization of Contemporary Proxy Warfare
• 2 US Proxy Warfare’s New and Complex Paradigm
• 3 States and Non-State Actors Interacting in Conflict: Explaining State Use of Proxies
• Part Two Proxy Forces in Various Theaters of Armed Conflicts: Case Studies
• 4 Russian Proxy Use in the Hybrid War against Ukraine before the 2022 Invasion
• 5 Ukraine’s Legionnaires in the War against Russia
• 6 Insurgencies in Africa and the Middle East and the Future of the Proxy Warfare in the Region
• 7 Proxy Warfare in Mali: New Rendition of Divide et Impera and Cautious French Saviorism
• 8 The Bifurcation of Violence: The Proxy Forces in the Central African Republic
• 9 Libya: Fragmentation of the Country amid a Proxy War
• 10 The Spheres of Influence: Multiple Proxy Wars in Syria
• 11 Iran’s Hybrid Proxy Warfare through Palestinian Terrorism against Israel
• 12 The Conflict in Yemen through the Prism of Proxy War
• 13 When Proxies Win: The Impact of the Taliban’s Changing Fortune on Pakistan’s Leverage
• Part Three Proxy Wars: The Emergence of a New Paradigm
• 14 Transnational Organized Crime Groups as State Proxies
• 15 The Salience of the New Proxy War Paradigm
• Afterword
• Index
• Copyright