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264 p. : 11 ill. |
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20100212 IP 20110323 GB xxk Palgrave Macmillan UK-WkNB |
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Electronic book text. |
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Epublication based on: 9780230211421, 2010. |
| Contents |
Introduction PART I: INSURGENT STATELESS WARFARE Historical Background The Types and Modes of Insurgency Insurgent Strategies Terroristic Warfare and Strategies Comparisons with Criminality PART II: THE CALCULUS OF INSURGENCY: MOTIVE, MEANS AND OPPORTUNITY The Motives of Insurgency The Means of Insurgency Opportunity and Environments The Social-Political Environment Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index. |
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| Summary |
This book focuses on insurgent stateless warfare in its guerrilla and terrorist modes and in its nationalist, maoist and postmaoist phases of modernization. Insurgency is compared with states' warfare and with criminality and then insurgents' motives, means and opportunities are analyzed from social-science, military and environmental perspectives. Although a primeval form of conflict, stateless warfare is still very much in existence in the 21st century. This is mainly because the insurgent stateless warfare of guerrillas and terrorists has been continually modernising since the 1800s in a manner similar to the three-phase modernisation of non-democratic regimes. Brooker makes this the focus of the first part of his fascinating book. He then moves on to examine the guerrilla and terrorist modes of insurgency, its revolutionary, separatist and expeller types as well as its two formats, the bandit-like and the gangster-like. The second part describes the forensic calculus of motive, means and opportunity that explains and predicts insurgents' degree of success. This framework assesses insurgents' motivation, their methods and capability, their military and political opportunity and their social opportunity for winning political support. Brooker concludes by predicting a fourth, apocalyptic phase in the modernisation of stateless warfare -- and an accompanying fourth, Orwellian phase in the modernisation of non-democratic rule. |
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| Biography |
PAUL BROOKER is Visitor in the Political Science Department of the University of Canterbury, UK, and the author of several books on non-democratic regimes. |
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Asymmetric warfare.
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Guerrilla warfare.
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Terrorism.
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Insurgency.
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International relations.
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Irregular or guerrilla forces & warfare.
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Terrorism, armed struggle.
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Politics and Government.
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| ISBN |
9780230274761 : £72.00 |
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0230274765 : £72.00 |
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