Rethinking the Nature of War
Jan Angstrom, Isabelle Duyvesteyn
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Rethinking the Nature of War
Jan Angstrom, Isabelle Duyvesteyn
Información del libro
Have globalization, virulent ethnic differences, and globally operating insurgents fundamentally changed the nature of war in the last decade?
Interpretations of war as driven by politics and state rationale, formulated most importantly by the 19th century practitioner Carl von Clausewitz, have received strong criticism. Political explanations have been said to fall short in explaining conflicts in the Balkans, Africa, Asia and the attacks of 11 September 2001 in the United States.This book re-evaluates these criticisms not only by scrutinising Clausewitz's arguments and their applicability, but also by a careful reading of the criticism itself. In doing so, it presents empirical evidence on the basis of several case studies, addressing various aspects of modern war, such as the actors, conduct and purposes of war.
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Rethinking the Nature of War
Contents
- Preface and acknowledgements
- Notes on contributors
- 1 Introduction: Debating the nature of modern war JAN ANGSTROM
- 2 Strategy in an age of ‘low-intensity’ warfare: why Clausewitz is still more relevant than his critics M. L. R. SMITH
- 3 The concept of conventional war and armed conflict in collapsed states ISABELLE DUYVESTEYN
- 4 Warfare in civil wars STATHIS N. KALYVAS
- 5 A different kind of war? September 11 and the United States’ Afghan war COLIN MCINNES
- 6 New wars, old warfare? Comparing US tactics in Vietnam and Afghanistan KERSTI LARSDOTTER
- 7 The wars in former Yugoslavia in the 1990s: bringing the state back in BOB DE GRAAFF
- 8 International operations to contain violence in a complex emergency JOHN MACKINLAY
- 9 Theories of globalisation and sub-state conflict PAUL B. RICH
- 10 Elaborating the ‘new war’ thesis MARY KALDOR
- 11 Rethinking the nature of war: some conclusions ISABELLE DUYVESTEYN
- Index