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The New Counter-insurgency Era in Critical Perspective / by Celeste Ward Gventer, M.L.R Smith ; edited by D. Jones.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gventer, Celeste Ward, Author.
- Smith, M. L. R. (Michael Lawrence Rowan), 1963- Author.
- Series:
- Rethinking Political Violence, 2752-8596
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- International relations.
- Terrorism.
- Political violence.
- Politics and war.
- Peace.
- Diplomacy.
- Political science.
- International Relations.
- Terrorism and Political Violence.
- Military and Defence Studies.
- Peace and Conflict Studies.
- Political Science.
- Local Subjects:
- International Relations.
- Terrorism and Political Violence.
- Military and Defence Studies.
- Peace and Conflict Studies.
- Diplomacy.
- Political Science.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (390 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2014.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The notion of counter-insurgency has become a dominant paradigm in American and British thinking about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. This volume brings together international academics and practitioners to evaluate the broader theoretical and historical factors that underpin COIN, providing a critical reappraisal of counter-insurgency thinking.
- Contents:
- Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Part I: Counter-insurgency: History and Theory; 1 Minting New COIN: Critiquing Counter-insurgency Theory; 2 COIN and the Chameleon: The Category Errors of Trying to Divide the Indivisible; 3 Our Own Worst Enemy: The Unspoken Paradox of Large-Scale Expeditionary COIN; 4 Government in a Box? Counter-insurgency, State Building, and the Technocratic Conceit; 5 'Our Ghettos, Too, Need a Lansdale': American Counter-insurgency Abroad and at Home in the Vietnam Era
- 6 Bringing the Soil Back in: Control and Territoriality in Western and Non-Western COIN7 Counter-insurgency and Violence Management; 8 Mass, Methods, and Means: The Northern Ireland 'Model' of Counter-insurgency; 9 David Galula and the Revival of COIN in the US Military; Part II: Counter-insurgency in Iraq and Afghanistan?; 10 Testing the Surge: Why Did Violence Decline in Iraq in 2007?; 11 After a Decade of Counter-insurgency, Eliminate Nation-Building from US Military Manuals; 12 The Conceit of American Counter-insurgency
- 13 'The Population Is the Enemy': Control, Behaviour, and Counter-insurgency in Central Helmand Province, Afghanistan14 The Reluctant Counter-insurgents: Britain's Absent Surge in Southern Iraq; Part III: Counter-insurgency and Future Warfare; 15 Questions about COIN after Iraq and Afghanistan; 16 The Military Utility and Interventions Post-Afghanistan: Reassessing Ends, Ways, and Means; 17 'What Do We Do If We Are Never Going to Do This Again?' Western Counter-insurgency Choices after Iraq and Afghanistan; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781349463626
- 1349463620
- 9781137336941
- 1137336943
- OCLC:
- 868658319
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