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Useful enemies : when waging wars is more important than winning them / David Keen.
LIBRA U21.2 .K427 2012
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Keen, David, 1958-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- War--Causes.
- War.
- Protracted conflicts (Military science).
- War--Psychological aspects.
- War crimes.
- Violence--Social aspects.
- Violence.
- Politics and war.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 311 pages ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- When waging wars is more important than winning them
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2012]
- Summary:
- In this riveting, disturbing and important book, David Keen investigates the factors that cause and sustain wars, and argues that in order to bring them successfully to an end we need to understand the complex interests on all sides. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Resource Wars 11
- Chapter 2 Aiding Resource Wars? 33
- Chapter 3 Vietnam: Useful enemies and useless allies 45
- Chapter 4 Afghanistan 64
- Chapter 5 The Political Functions of War 92
- Chapter 6 Wars Within Wars 116
- Chapter 7 The Politics of Permanent Emergency 138
- Chapter 8 Case Study of a Permanent Emergency: the United States 171
- Chapter 9 Shame and the Psychological Functions of Violence 195.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780300162745
- 030016274X
- OCLC:
- 759174514
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