The main locus of instability, conflict, and violence in the
post-Cold War world is the periphery -- particularly the poorest
regions of what used to be called the Third World. Internal wars of
secession, struggles for political power, and chaos in failed or
failing states are the dominant forms, expressed in intercommunal
or ethnic violence, domestic and international acts of terrorism,
and, increasingly, essentially criminal insurgencies with no
political objective.
This completely revised edition of Distant Thunder brings the
problem of Third-World conflict into the post-Cold War era. Now
that the periphery is no longer the site of surrogate competitions
between rival political-economic systems, when and how should the
developed countries intervene in internal wars outside the compass
of their traditional geopolitical interest -- and what can such
intervention be realistically expected to accomplish?
The new edition
-- shows how secessionist and ethnic conflicts, terrorism, and the
drug trade fit into the context of international politics;
-- examines the post-Cold War dynamics of political and economic
decline, state failure, and the limits of interventionism;
-- includes case studies of the Shining Path of Peru and its
degeneration from a Maoist-type insurgency to a narco-terrorist
ring and the Somali crisis as examples of the difficulties of of
international intervention in internal wars.
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