The Counterinsurgent Imagination: A New Intellectual History - Couverture rigide

MacKay, Joseph

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1009225812 ISBN 13 : 9781009225816

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2023

Synopsis

Counterinsurgency, the violent suppression of armed insurrection, is among the dominant kinds of war in contemporary world politics. Often linked to protecting populations and reconstructing legitimate political orders, it has appeared in other times and places in very different forms – and has taken on a range of politics in doing so. How did it arrive at its present form, and what generated these others, along the way? Spanning several centuries and four detailed case studies, The Counterinsurgent Imagination unpacks and explores this intellectual history through counterinsurgency manuals. These military theoretical and instructional texts, and the practitioners who produced them, made counterinsurgency possible in practice. By interrogating these processes, this book explains how counter-insurrectionary war eventually took on its late twentieth and early twenty-first century forms. It shows how and why counterinsurgent ideas persist, despite recurring failures.

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À propos de l'auteur

Joseph MacKay is a Fellow in the Department of International Relations, Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, Australian National University. He works on historical international security, international hierarchies, and the history of international thought.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1009225812
• ISBN 13: 9781009225816
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 300
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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