Before Military Intervention: Upstream Stabilisation in Theory and Practice

ISBN-13: 9783030074944 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 213 str.

Timothy Clack; Robert Johnson

Spis treści

1. Introduction 

 Robert Johnson and Timothy Clack

2. The Discreet Indispensability of Unpiloted Assistance? Remote Aerial Capabilities in Upstream Preventative Stabilisation Interventions

Paul Schulte

3. The Politics of Security Assistance in the Horn of Africa             

William Reno

4. ‘Fighting Out Its Own Complex and Fatal Destiny’? On the Limitations on the Use of Force in Yemen                                                                          

Aaron Edwards

5. Crisis and Intervention: Combating Terrorism in the Sahel        

Susanna D. Wing

6. Illicit Governance and Impunity: Why Borderlands Matter for Upstream Engagement                                                                                                   

Annette Idler

7. Future Stabilization Strategy and the Changing Upstream Environment

Robert Johnson

8. The Apocalyptic and the Sectarian: Identity, ‘Bare Life’ and the Rise of Da’ish                                                                                                                    

Simon Mabon

9. The Unintended Consequences of Upstreaming: Western Engagement in Iraq                                                                                                                       

Gareth Stansfield

O autorze

Timothy Clack is Fellow and Lecturer of St Peter’s College and Senior Research Fellow of the Changing Character of War Centre, University of Oxford, UK.

Robert Johnson is Director of the Changing Character of War Centre and Senior Research Fellow of Pembroke College, University of Oxford, UK.

Blurb

This book explores the natures of recent stabilisation efforts and global upstream threats. As prevention is always cheaper than the crisis of state collapse or civil war, the future character of conflict will increasingly involve upstream stabilisation operations. However, the unpredictability and variability of state instability requires governments and militaries to adopt a diversity of approach, conceptualisation and vocabulary. Offering perspectives from theory and practice, the chapters in this collection provide crucial insight into military roles and capabilities, opportunities, risks and limitations, doctrine, strategy and tactics, and measures of effect relevant to operations in upstream environments. This volume will appeal to researchers and practitioners seeking to understand historical and current conflict.

Timothy Clack is Fellow and Lecturer of St Peter’s College and Senior Research Fellow of the Changing Character of War Centre, University of Oxford, UK.

Robert Johnson is Director of the Changing Character of War Centre and Senior Research Fellow of Pembroke College, University of Oxford, UK.