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Pacification and Its Discontents
Kurt Jacobsen
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Paperback. As George W Bush's Iraq mission unraveled, US policy elites revived counterinsurgency doctrines - known in an earlier incarnation as pacification. This title defines pacification as 'the process by which the government assert[s] its influence and control in an area beset by insurgents'. Num Pages: 100 pages, 10 halftones. BIC Classification: JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 177 x 114 x 8. Weight in Grams: 113.
As George W. Bush's Iraq mission unraveled, U.S. policy elites revived counterinsurgency doctrines - known in an earlier incarnation as pacification. The new edition of the "Counterinsurgency Field Manual" defines pacification as 'the process by which the government assert[s] its influence and control in an area beset by insurgents', which includes 'local security efforts, programs to distribute food and medical supplies, and lasting reforms (like land redistribution)'. Such language may sound innocuous, but for Kurt Jacobsen and fellow skeptics, 'pacification' and its synonym 'counterinsurgency' are stale euphemisms for violent suppression of popular resistance movements abroad - the tragic atrocities committed ... Read more
As George W. Bush's Iraq mission unraveled, U.S. policy elites revived counterinsurgency doctrines - known in an earlier incarnation as pacification. The new edition of the "Counterinsurgency Field Manual" defines pacification as 'the process by which the government assert[s] its influence and control in an area beset by insurgents', which includes 'local security efforts, programs to distribute food and medical supplies, and lasting reforms (like land redistribution)'. Such language may sound innocuous, but for Kurt Jacobsen and fellow skeptics, 'pacification' and its synonym 'counterinsurgency' are stale euphemisms for violent suppression of popular resistance movements abroad - the tragic atrocities committed ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Prickly Paradigm Press, LLC United States
Number of pages
100
Condition
New
Number of Pages
100
Place of Publication
Chicago, United States
ISBN
9780979405785
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V9780979405785
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About Kurt Jacobsen
Kurt Jacobsen is a research associate in the Program on International Politics, Economics, and Security in the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago and the book review editor at Logos: A Journal of Modern Society & Culture. He is the author or editor of many books, including Experiencing the State and the forthcoming Freud's Foes: Psychoanalysis, Science, ... Read more
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