The Routledge Handbook of Insurgency and Counterinsurgency

ISBN-13: 9780415747530 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 386 str.

Paul B. Rich; Isabelle Duyvesteyn

Opis

This handbook offers a wide-ranging examination of the current state of academic analysis & debate as well as an up-to-date survey of contemporary insurgent movements & counter-insurgencies.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: The Study of Insurgency and Counterinsurgency  Part 1: Theoretical and Analytical Issues  2. The Historiography of Insurgency  3. Rethinking Insurgency  4. Changing forms of Insurgency: Pirates, Narco Gangs and Failed States?  5. Cyber Space and Insurgency  6. Whither Counterinsurgency: The Rise and Fall of a Divisive Concept 7. Peacekeeping and the Slippery Slope to Counterinsurgency  8. Insurgency, Counterinsurgency and Policing  9. Intelligence-Gathering, Special Operations and Air-Strikes in Modern Counterinsurgency  10. Ethics of Counterinsurgency  11. Counterinsurgency: The State of a Controversial Art  Part 2: Insurgent Movements  12. Insurgent Movements in Africa  13. Insurgent Movements in Iraq  14. Hezbollah and Hamas; Islamic Insurgents with Nationalist Causes  15. Insurgency in Southeast Asia  16. Insurgencies in India  17. Insurgency in Afghanistan  18. Insurgent Movements in Pakistan  19. Post-Cold War Counterinsurgency in Latin America  Part 3: Counterinsurgency Cases  20. Trends in American Counterinsurgency  21. Israeli Counterinsurgency: The Never-ending 'Whack-a-Mole'  22. From Belfast to Laskkar via Basra; British Counterinsurgency Today  23. Counterinsurgency in a Non-Democratic State: The Russian Example  24. Counterinsurgency in India  25. Counterinsurgency in Sri Lanka; A Successful Model?  26. Counterinsurgency in Pakistan  27. China's Society-centric Counterterrorism Approach in Xinjiang  28. South African Counterinsurgency: A Historiographical Overview  29. Insurgency and Counterinsurgency; Some Conclusions