Distant thunder : patterns of conflict in the developing world / Donald M. Snow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Snow, Donald M., 1943- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political violence--Developing countries.

Political violence.

Insurgency--Developing countries.

Insurgency.

Terrorism--Developing countries.

Terrorism.

Developing countries--Foreign relations.

Developing countries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2015.

Summary:

The main locu of instability, conflict and violence in the post-Cold War world is the periphery - particularly the poorest regions of what used to be called the Third World. Internal wars of secession, struggles for power and chaos in failed or failing states are the dominant forms, expressed in intercommunal or ethnic violence, domestic and international acts of terrorism, and, increasingly, essentially criminal insurgencies with no political objective. This completely revised edition of "Distant Thunder" brings the problem of Third-World conflict into the post-Cold War era. Now that the periphery is no longer the site of surrogate competitions between rival political-economic systems, when and how should the developed countries intervene in internal wars outside the compass of their traditional geopolitical interest - and what can such intervention be realistically expected to accomplish? The new edition shows how secessionist and ethnic conflicts, terrorism and the drug trade fit into the context of international politics, examines the post-Cold War dynamics of political and economic decline, state failure, and the limits of interventionism, includes case studies of the Shining Path of Peru and its degeneration from a Maoist-type insurgency to a narco-terrorist ring and the Somali crisis as examples of the difficulties of international intervention in internal wars.

Contents:

ch. 1. The changing face of violent conflict

ch. 2. Second tier problems in a first tier-dominated world

ch. 3. The venerable foe : insurgency

ch. 4. The intractable nemesis : counterinsurgency

ch. 5. New internal war

ch. 6. The other challenges : counternarcotics, counterterrorism, and regional conflict

ch. 7. Cases in point : Sendero Luminoso and restore hope

ch. 8. Distant thunder or siren's call?

Notes:

"First published 1997 by M.E. Sharpe"--t.p. verso.

ISBN:

1-315-70515-X

1-317-47299-3

9781315705156

OCLC:

958109204