Making Sense of Proxy Wars
Innes, Michael A.; Banks, William C.
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Description for Making Sense of Proxy Wars
On the cutting edge of current research on surrogacy and proxy warfare Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: JPWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 165 x 22. Weight in Grams: 478.
Public debate over surrogate forces and proxy warfare has been largely dormant since the end of the Cold War. The conventional wisdom has been that with the end of the U.S.- Soviet rivalry, state sources of support for proxy guerrilla, insurgent, and terrorist organizations dried up, forcing them to look to criminal activity to survive and precipitating the growth of dangerously independent and well-resourced militants, mercenaries, and warlords. But in the few years since 2001, a wide range of issues raised to prominence by wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere suggest that armed proxies, and the forces that drive and ... Read more
Public debate over surrogate forces and proxy warfare has been largely dormant since the end of the Cold War. The conventional wisdom has been that with the end of the U.S.- Soviet rivalry, state sources of support for proxy guerrilla, insurgent, and terrorist organizations dried up, forcing them to look to criminal activity to survive and precipitating the growth of dangerously independent and well-resourced militants, mercenaries, and warlords. But in the few years since 2001, a wide range of issues raised to prominence by wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere suggest that armed proxies, and the forces that drive and ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Potomac Books Inc United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Dulles, United States
ISBN
9781597972307
SKU
V9781597972307
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About Innes, Michael A.; Banks, William C.
MICHAEL A. INNES is a visiting research fellow in the School of Politics and International Studies (POLIS), University of Leeds, and a research and practice associate with the Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism (INSCT), Syracuse University. From 2003 to 2009, he was a civilian analyst and advisor with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and served on missions in Bosnia- ... Read more
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