Rethinking the Nature of War

ISBN-13: 9780415354622 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 264 str.

Isabelle Duyvesteyn

Opis

The authors attempt to come to grips with the nature of war, discussing the evolution of war theory from Clausewitz down to the currently favoured 'small wars' paradigm, & re-evaluating the theory in the light of globalisation, ethnic cleansing & trans-national terrorism.

Spis treści

1 Introduction: Debating the nature of modern war 2 Strategy in an age of ‘low-intensity’ warfare: why Clausewitz is still more relevant than his critics 3 The concept of conventional war and armed conflict in collapsed states 4 Warfare in civil wars 5 A different kind of war? September 11 and the United States’ Afghan war 6 New wars, old warfare? Comparing US tactics in Vietnam and Afghanistan 7 The wars in former Yugoslavia in the 1990s: bringing the state back in 8 International operations to contain violence in a complex emergency 9 Theories of globalisation and sub-state conflict 10 Elaborating the ‘new war’ thesis 11 Rethinking the nature of war: some conclusions

O autorze

Isabelle Duyvesteyn is a lecturer at the Department of History of International Relations, Utrecht University, The Netherlands.
Jan Angstrom is a researcher at the Department of War Studies, Swedish National Defence College.