Reconfiguring Intervention Complexity, Resilience and the 'Local Turn' in Counterinsurgent Warfare

Reconfiguring Intervention Complexity, Resilience and the 'Local Turn' in Counterinsurgent Warfare / edited by Louise Wiuff Moe, Markus-Michael Müller.

This edited volume critically assesses emerging trends in contemporary warfare and international interventionism as exemplified by the ‘local turn’ in counterinsurgent warfare. It asks how contemporary counterinsurgency approaches work and are legitimized; what concrete effects they have within loca...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Moe, Louise Wiuff (Editor), Müller, Markus-Michael (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Edition:1st ed. 2017.
Series:Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Politics and war.
Terrorism.
Political violence.
Peace.
Electronic resources (E-books)
Online Access:Click to view e-book
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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1: ‘A Struggle for Control and Influence’: Western Counterinsurgency and the Problematic of Autonomy
  • Chapter 2: Ethnographic Intelligence: The Human Terrain System and Its Enduring Legacy
  • Chapter 3: Grey’s Anatomy Goes South: Biometrics, Racism, and Counterinsurgency in the Colonial Present
  • Chapter 4: The Peacebuilding-Counterinsurgency Nexus in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
  • Chapter 5: Counterinsurgent Warfare and the Decentering of Sovereignty in Somalia
  • Chapter 6: The ‘New Path’ to Peace. Cultivating Masculinities in Southern Thai Counterinsurgency
  • Chapter 7: Countering Criminal Insurgencies: Fighting Gangs and Building Resilient Communities in Post-War Guatemala
  • Chapter 8: The Locals Strike Back: The Anbar Awakening in Iraq and the Rise of Islamic State
  • Afterword: Western Strategic Thought and the Devaluation of Counterinsurgency. .

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