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Spectator-Sport War: The West and Contemporary Conflict (Making Sense of Global Security)
Colin McInnes
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Hardcover. This text argues that the nature of war has been transformed. It considers developments that have led to this metamorphosis: the possibility of a major war in the West has become remote, and limited Cold War conflicts have been succeeded by local conflicts with little potential for escalation. Num Pages: 180 pages. BIC Classification: JPS; JWA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230. .
At the end of a century dominated by global conflict - and despite the unchanging nature of the human suffering it causes - the nature of war itself, argues Colin McInnes, has been transformed. McInnes considers the key developments that have led to this metamorphosis: the possibility of a major war in the West has become remote, and the limited Cold War conflicts in which superpower rivalries were played out have been succeeded by local conflicts with little or no potential for escalation. There has been a change in the relationship between war and society, with wars now fought by ... Read more
At the end of a century dominated by global conflict - and despite the unchanging nature of the human suffering it causes - the nature of war itself, argues Colin McInnes, has been transformed. McInnes considers the key developments that have led to this metamorphosis: the possibility of a major war in the West has become remote, and the limited Cold War conflicts in which superpower rivalries were played out have been succeeded by local conflicts with little or no potential for escalation. There has been a change in the relationship between war and society, with wars now fought by ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Lynne Rienner Pub
Condition
New
Number of Pages
180
Place of Publication
Boulder, CO, United States
ISBN
9781588260475
SKU
V9781588260475
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99-3
About Colin McInnes
Colin McInnes is reader in the Department of International Politics at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. His many publications on security and strategy include NATO's Changing Security Agenda and Hot War, Cold War: The British Army's Way in Warfare. In 1999 he was appointed special adviser to the House of Commons Defence Committee.
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