Rethinking the Nature of War

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext The book aims to evaluate claims about the so-called 'new wars' thesis. Zusammenfassung The book aims to evaluate claims about the so-called 'new wars' thesis. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Jan Angstrom, Jan (Swedish Defence College Angstrom, Jan (Swedish National Defence College Angstrom, Angstrom Jan, Isabelle Duyvesteyn, Duyvesteyn Isabelle
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.12.2004
• EAN: 9780415354622
• ISBN: 978-0-415-35462-2
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Contemporary Security Studies
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Security (National & International), HISTORY / General, HISTORY / Military / General, HISTORY / Military / Strategy, Armed Conflict, Theory of warfare and military science, Theory of warfare & military science