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C. Holmqvist - Policing Wars: On Military Intervention in the Twenty-First Century (Rethinking Political Violence) - 9781349999903 - V9781349999903
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Policing Wars: On Military Intervention in the Twenty-First Century (Rethinking Political Violence)

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Description for Policing Wars: On Military Intervention in the Twenty-First Century (Rethinking Political Violence) Paperback. Holmqvist presents an original account of the relationship between war and policing in the twenty first century. This interdisciplinary study of contemporary Western strategic thinking reveals how, why, and with what consequences, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq became seen as policing wars. Series: Rethinking Political Violence. Num Pages: 182 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; JFC; JKV; JPS; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 216 x 14. Weight in Grams: 246.
Holmqvist presents an original account of the relationship between war and policing in the twenty first century. This interdisciplinary study of contemporary Western strategic thinking reveals how, why, and with what consequences, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq became seen as policing wars.

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Series
Rethinking Political Violence
Number of Pages
175
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349999903
SKU
V9781349999903
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15

About C. Holmqvist
Caroline Holmqvist is Senior Lecturer in War Studies at the Swedish National Defence College in Stockholm, Sweden and a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for International Studies at the London School of Economics, UK. She has previously worked at the Stockholm Institute for International Affairs and at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.

Reviews for Policing Wars: On Military Intervention in the Twenty-First Century (Rethinking Political Violence)
'Contemporary liberal thought imagines war as a perpetual policing exercise, in which disorder is made into order. Demonstrating a command of theory few analysts of war can muster, Holmqvist shows how liberalism supplies a set of metaphors an intellectual scaffolding encompassing time, space, agency and power through which war becomes a management tool for the restoration of the ... Read more

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