The Counterinsurgent Imagination - A New Intellectual History (Hardcover)

Counterinsurgency, the violent suppression of armed insurrection, is among the dominant kinds of war in contemporary world politics. Often linked to protecting populations and reconstructing legitimate political orders, it has appeared in other times and places in very different forms - and has taken on a range of politics in doing so. How did it arrive at its present form, and what generated these others, along the way? Spanning several centuries and four detailed case studies, The Counterinsurgent Imagination unpacks and explores this intellectual history through counterinsurgency manuals. These military theoretical and instructional texts, and the practitioners who produced them, made counterinsurgency possible in practice. By interrogating these processes, this book explains how counter-insurrectionary war eventually took on its late twentieth and early twenty-first century forms. It shows how and why counterinsurgent ideas persist, despite recurring failures.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	LSE International Studies
Release date:	December 2022
Authors:	Joseph MacKay
Dimensions:	235 x 158 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	300
ISBN-13:	978-1-00-922581-6
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > History of ideas, intellectual history Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Military history Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > International relations > General Books > Social sciences > Warfare & defence > War & defence operations > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > Military history Promotions
LSN:	1-00-922581-2
Barcode:	9781009225816

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