Buch, Englisch, 360 Seiten
A Global History, 1917 to the Present
Buch, Englisch, 360 Seiten
ISBN: 978-1-5095-5004-3
Verlag: Polity Press
Civil war was the most extreme, cruel and widespread form of violence during much of the 20th century. Its hurricane-like vortex devastated countries, split nations and destroyed communities in Europe, Asia, Africa and America. No other tool worked better for unleashing revolutions or repelling them, building nations, expelling ethnic or political minorities, securing territorial domains and economic resources, annihilating internal enemies, creating orphans and widows and generating human suffering. With the era of major international conflicts ending in the middle of the 20th century, civil wars are now the most recurrent type of armed conflict in the world. With more than 20 million victims and 65 million refugees since 1945, it is difficult to dispute their primacy in the hierarchy of contemporary terror.
Civil Wars traces the history of civil wars in the 20th and 21st centuries, arguing that civil wars have played a key role in shaping the world in which we live today. It analyses a multitude of civil wars in different countries and regions of the world including Russia, Finland, Ireland, Spain, Italy, China, Yugoslavia, Greece, Korea, Indochina, Guatemala, Congo, Rwanda, Sudan, Afghanistan, Chechnya, Iraq and Syria. Through these case studies, the authors seek to identify elements intrinsic to civil war, such as its transnational nature, the contagion effect, recurrent conflict and extreme violence against civilians, in order to identify the cycles of civil war that shaped the twentieth century and continue to shape the world today.
This book is the first to offer a global history of civil wars in the hundred years from 1917 to 2017: the century of terror and genocide, but also the century of civil wars. It will be of interest to a wide readership interested in war and conflict in the modern world, as well as to students and scholars of war and of modern history.
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Konflikt- und Friedensforschung, Rüstungskontrolle, Abrüstung
Weitere Infos & Material
Introduction
1. What is Civil War?
A Conceptual Genealogy
Historizing Civil Wars
Conclusions
2. Revolution, Civil War, and Total War in Europe
Revolution/Counter-revolution
The Civil Wars of the Russian Revolution, 1917-1926
The Wars of the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939
Occupation, Resistance and Collaboration: Internal Conflict in Nazi Europe, 1941-1945
Blood Calling Blood: Italy, 1943-1945
Yugoslavia. Civil War Between Nations, 1941-1945
Coda: Greece as the Beginning and End of a Cycle, 1945-1949
3. The Cold War in Asia
A Long March: The Chinese Civil War, 1927-1958
From Civil War to International War: Korea, 1948-1953
Central Asia and the Middle East in the Cold War, 1951-1978
Afghanistan at a Crossroads, 1978-2001
4. The Cold War in Africa and Latin America
Foreign Interference and War in the Congo, 1960-1962
From the Congo to Zaire: Never-ending Civil War, 1963-1997
Latin America: Imperial Power, State-Building and Global Capitalism
Central America: Unfinished Wars with Long-Lasting Effects
Taking Stock of African Civil Wars
5. After the Cold War
The Collapse of the Soviet Union and the Conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, 1988-1994
Loss of control and the collapse of the Soviet state, 1988-1991
War in the post-imperial periphery, 1992-1994
A Covert War between Serbia and Croatia: Krajina, Vukovar and Dubrovnik, 1991-1992
War in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1992-1995 Civil War Between Muslims and Bosnian Croats: Summer 1992-Winter 1993
United States Intervention, Proxy War and Forced Displacement, 1994-1995 Chechnya, a Failed State, 1991-2000
6. The Present Day: The Losers in Every War
Conclusion
List of Maps
Bibliography
Notes
