Smith / Jones The Political Impossibility of Modern Counterinsurgency

Strategic Problems, Puzzles, and Paradoxes
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-231-53912-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Columbia Studies in Terrorism and Irregular Warfare

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Smith, M.L.R.

Jones, David

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Friedens- und Konfliktforschung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Theorie der Kriegsführung und Militärwissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Revolutionäre Gruppen und Bewegungen, Bewaffnete Konflikte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Terrorismus, Religiöser Fundamentalismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Nationale und Internationale Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Konflikt- und Friedensforschung, Rüstungskontrolle, Abrüstung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. What Is Counterinsurgency Meant to Counter? The Puzzle of Insurgency
2. Counterinsurgency and Strategy: Problems and Paradoxes
3. Counterinsurgency and the Ideology of Modernization
4. The Paradoxes of Counterinsurgency and Globalization
5. The Illusion of Tradition: Myths and Paradoxes of British Counterinsurgency
6. The Puzzle of Counterinsurgency and Escalation
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

M. L. R. Smith is professor of strategic theory in the Department of War Studies at King's College, University of London. Among his publications are Fighting for Ireland? The Military Strategy of the Irish Republican Movement and The Strategy of Terrorism: How It Works and Why It Fails.

David Martin Jones is associate professor in the School of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Queensland, Brisbane. His publications include Political Development in Pacific Asia, The Image of China in Western Social and Political Thought, and, with M. L. R. Smith, ASEAN and East Asian International Relations: Regional Delusion and Sacred Violence: Political Religion in a Secular Age.