Comparing Armed Conflicts

ISBN-13: 9781032016375 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 186 str.

Bruno Charbonneau; Adam Sandor

Opis

Considering the political dynamism of spaces of conflict and intervention, and that practitioners regularly seek out academic expertise, this book discusses the possibilities and limits of comparative approaches to understanding armed conflict and intervention.

Spis treści

Introduction: Power and Comparative Methods: Performing the Worlds of Armed Conflicts  1. The Importance of Context When Comparing Civil Wars  2. Comparing Conflict-related Sexual Violence: Expertise, Politics and Documentation  3. Fanning the Flames or a Troubling Truth? The Politics of Comparison in the Israel-Palestine Conflict  4. Privileged Sphere of Comparison: Empire, Methods and Conflict Intervention  5. The Middle East is Violence: On the Limits of Comparative Approaches to the Study of Armed Conflict  6. Normative Scaling and Crisis Knowledge: The Problematic Use of Selective Analogies to Compare Conflicts  7. Sahelistan? Military Intervention and Patronage Politics in Afghanistan and Mali