Timothy J. Lomperis

From People's War to People's Rule

Insurgency, Intervention, and the Lessons of Vietnam

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Produktbeschreibung

Timothy Lomperis persuasively argues the ironic point that the lessons of American involvement in Vietnam are not to be found in any analysis of the war by itself. Rather, he proposes a comparison of the Vietnam experience with seven other cases of Western intervention in communist insurgencies during the Cold War era: China, Indochina, Greece, the Philippines, Malaya, Cambodia, and Laos. Lomperis maintains that popular insurgencies are manifestations of crises in political legitimacy, which occur as a result of the societal stresses caused by modernization. Therefore, he argues, any intervention in a 'people's war' will succeed or fail depending on how it affects this crisis. The unifying theme in the cases Lomperis discusses is the power of land reform and electoral democracy to cement political legitimacy and therefore deflect revolutionary movements. Applying this theory to the ongoing Sendero Luminoso insurgency in Peru, Lomperis makes a qualified prediction of that conflict's outcome. He concludes that a global trend toward democratization has produced a new era of 'people's rule.'

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press
• Seitenzahl: 462
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. September 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 781g
• ISBN-13: 9780807845776
• ISBN-10: 0807845779
• Artikelnr.: 21258155

Autorenporträt

Timothy J. Lomperis is professor and chair of the department of political science at Saint Louis University.