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The Long War - Insurgency, Counterinsurgency and Collapsing States (Hardcover)
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The Long War - Insurgency, Counterinsurgency and Collapsing States (Hardcover)
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The rise and fall of the Cold War coincided with the
universalization and consolidation of the modern nation-state as
the key unit of the wider international system. A key
characteristic of the post-Cold War era, in which the US has
emerged as the sole superpower, is the growing number of collapsing
or collapsed states. A growing number of states are, or have
become, mired in conflict or civil war, the antecedents of which
are often to be found in the late-colonial and Cold War era. At the
same time, US foreign policy (and the actions of other
organizations such as the United Nations) may well be compounding
state failure in the context of the post-9/11 Global War on Terror
(GWOT) or what is also increasingly referred to as the 'Long War'.
The Long War is often represented as a 'new' era in warfare and
geopolitics. This book acknowledges that the Long War is new in
important respects, but it also emphasizes that the Long War bears
many similarities to the Cold War. A key similarity is the way in
which insurgency and counterinsurgency were and continue to be seen
primarily in the context of inter-state rivalry in which the
critical local or regional dynamics of revolution and
counter-revolution are marginalized or neglected. In this context
American policy-makers and their allies have again erroneously
applied a 'grand strategy' that suits the imperatives of
conventional military and geo-political thinking rather than
engaging with what are a much more variegated array of problems
facing the changing global order. This book provides a collection
of well-integrated studies that shed light on the history and
future of insurgency, counterinsurgency and collapsing states in
the context of the Long War. This book was previously published as
a special issue of Third World Quarterly.
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