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Rethinking the Nature of War (Hardcover, New)
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Rethinking the Nature of War (Hardcover, New)
Series: Contemporary Security Studies
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Have globalisation, virulent ethnic differences, and globally
operating insurgents fundamentally changed the nature of war in the
last decades? Interpretations of war as driven by politics and
state rationale, formulated most importantly by the nineteenth
century practitioner Carl von Clausewitz, have received strong
criticism. Political explanations have been said to fall short in
explaining conflicts in the Balkans, Africa, Asia and the attacks
of 11 September 2001 in the United States. This book aims to
re-evaluate these criticisms by not only carefully scrutinising
Clausewitz's arguments and their applicability, but also by a
careful reading of the criticism itself. In doing so, the
contributions on this book present empirical evidence on the basis
of several case studies, addressing various aspects of modern war,
such as the actors, conduct and purposes of war. The book concludes
that while the debate on the nature of war has far from run its
course, the interpretation of war as postulated by Clausewitz is
not as inapplicable as some have claimed. Furthermore, the label a
war receives, such as civil war, does not necessarily say much
about the way this war is fought. conduct of war have unmistakeably
occurred but change should not overshadow the important
continuities that exist in the nature of war and warfare.
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