Barbara Elias (Maine Bowdoin College)

Why Allies Rebel

Defiant Local Partners in Counterinsurgency Wars

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Analysing policy documents from nine counterinsurgency wars, Elias asks why powerful militaries have difficulty managing local partners. Revealing a critical political dynamic in military interventions, this book will appeal to academics and policymakers addressing counterinsurgency issues in foreign policy, security studies and political science.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 351
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. September 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 520g
• ISBN-13: 9781108748063
• ISBN-10: 1108748066
• Artikelnr.: 64358518

Autorenporträt

Barbara Elias is Assistant Professor of Government at Bowdoin College, Maine specializing in international relations, counterinsurgency warfare, national security, Islam and politics and US foreign policy. She was the Director of the Afghanistan/Pakistan/Taliban Documentation Project at The National Security Archive in Washington DC.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Why local allies defy or comply with requests from intervening allies
3. Methodology: wars, documents and data
4. The US in Iraq
5. The US in Afghanistan
6. The US in Vietnam
7. India in Sri Lanka
8. The USSR in Afghanistan
9. When small states intervene
10. Conclusion.