Isabelle Duyvesteyn is a lecturer at the Department of History of International Relations, Utrecht University, The Netherlands. Jan Angstrom is a researcher at the Department of War Studies, Swedish National Defence College.
1 Introduction: Debating the nature of modern war 2 Strategy in an age of
'low-intensity' warfare: why Clausewitz is still more relevant than his
critics 3 The concept of conventional war and armed conflict in collapsed
states 4 Warfare in civil wars 5 A different kind of war? September 11 and
the United States' Afghan war 6 New wars, old warfare? Comparing US tactics
in Vietnam and Afghanistan 7 The wars in former Yugoslavia in the 1990s:
bringing the state back in 8 International operations to contain violence
in a complex emergency 9 Theories of globalisation and sub-state conflict
10 Elaborating the 'new war' thesis 11 Rethinking the nature of war: some
conclusions
