Routledge Handbook of Proxy Wars

ISBN-13: 9781032004136 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 536 str.

Assaf Moghadam; Vladimir Rauta; Michel Wyss

Opis

This Handbook is the first volume to comprehensively examine the challenges, intricacies, and dynamics of proxy wars, in their various facets.

The volume aims to capture the significantly growing interest in the topic at a critical juncture when wars of many guises are becoming multifaceted proxy wars. Most often, proxy wars have wide-ranging implications for international security and are, therefore, a critically important subject of inquiry. The Handbook seeks to understand and explain proxy wars conceptually, theoretically, and empirically, with a focus on the numerous policy challenges and dilemmas they pose. To do so, it presents a multi- and inter-disciplinary assessment of proxy wars focused on the causes, dynamics, and processes underpinning the phenomenon, across geostrategic contexts and a multitude of actors throughout human history. The Handbook is divided into six thematic sections, as follows:

Part I: Approaches to the Study of Proxy Wars

Part II: Historical Perspectives on Proxy Wars

Part III: Actors in Proxy Wars

Part IV: Dynamics of Proxy Wars

Part V: Case Studies of Proxy Wars

Part VI: The Future of Proxy Wars

By bringing together many leading scholars in a synthesis of expertise, this Handbook provides a unique and rigorous account of research into proxy war, which so far has been largely missing from the debate.

This book will be of much interest to students of strategic studies, security studies, foreign policy, political violence and International Relations.

Recenzje

'The Routledge Handbook of Proxy Wars will be the go-to guide for understanding the many facets of proxy wars today and of those in the past. Assaf Moghadam, Vladimir Rauta, and Michel Wyss have brought together a wide range of established and emerging experts who assess the problem from multiple perspectives and offer numerous insights to one of today's most pressing challenges.'

Daniel Byman, Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA

 

'A definitive compendium of essays on proxy warfare from the historical, legal, political and theoretical perspectives, The Routledge Handbook of Proxy Wars will doubtless prove to be the seminal work in a field whose time has come. Together these articles build an indispensable foundation not only for understanding the many-faceted phenomenon of proxy warfare but for anticipating the future challenges it may pose.’

Karen Greenberg, Fordham University, USA

 

'Fighting the conflicts of others is a phenomenon that has accompanied humanity throughout the ages. This wonderful collection offers readers a comprehensive overview, as well as thought-provoking insights into the past, present and future of proxy wars. With their specific logics, relationships and processes, proxy wars, as the authors rightly argue, deserve to be considered as a mature field of academic investigation. This handbook provides a benchmark, and therefore deserves high praise.' 　

Isabelle Duyvesteyn, Professor of International Studies, Leiden University, The Netherlands

Spis treści

1. The Study of Proxy Wars PART I: APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF PROXY WARS  2. Causal Logics of Proxy Wars  3. Quantitative Approaches to Proxy Wars  4. Formal Theory and Proxy Wars  5. State Sponsorship of Terrorism and Proxy Wars  6. Covert Action and Proxy Wars  7. International Law and Proxy Wars  8. Politics, Positionality, and Colonial Persistence in Proxy Wars  PART II: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES ON PROXY WARS  9. Proxy Wars in History: A Longue Durée Perspective  10. Proxy Wars in the Interwar Period: The Spanish Civil War  1. Proxy Wars and the Cold War: An East-West Perspective  12. The Historical Evolution of Proxy Wars: 1945-2022  PART III: ACTORS IN PROXY WARS  13. Militias and Proxy Wars  14. Tribes and Proxy Wars  15. Organized Crime and Proxy Wars  16. Diasporas and Proxy Wars  PART IV: DYNAMICS OF PROXY WARS  17. Controlling Proxies: An Analytical Framework  18. Engaging Proxies: A U.S. Perspective  19. Arming Proxies: Ethical and Legal Dilemmas  20. Confronting Proxies  21. Proxy War Termination  22. Consequences of Proxy Wars  PART V: CASE STUDIES OF PROXY WARS  23. Proxy Wars in Africa  24. Proxy Wars in the Horn of Africa  25. Proxy Wars in the Middle East  26. Iran’s Proxy War Strategy  27. Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units  28. Proxy War Dynamics in Yemen  29. Proxy Wars in the Post-Soviet Space  30. Proxy Wars in South Asia  31. Proxy Wars in Latin America  PART VI: THE FUTURE OF PROXY WARS  32. Proxy Wars and Cyberspace  33. Proxy Wars and Strategic Competition  34. The Return of Great Power Proxy Wars?

O autorze

Assaf Moghadam is the Dean of the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy at Reichman University. He holds fellowships at the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point and the Center on National Security at Fordham Law School.

Vladimir Rauta is a lecturer in politics and international relations with the School of Politics, Economics, and International Relations at the University of Reading, United Kingdom.

Michel Wyss is a scientific assistant at the Military Academy at ETH Zurich and a doctoral candidate at Leiden University. He also serves as a specialist officer in the Swiss Armed Forces.