P. Brooker

Modern Stateless Warfare (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780230274761
• Artikelnr.: 45965156

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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