Format:
1 Online-Ressource (351 pages)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
081313806X
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0813123399
,
0813171997
,
9780813138060
,
9780813123394
,
9780813171999
Content:
In Resisting Rebellion, Anthony James Joes explores insurgencies ranging across five continents and spanning more than two centuries. Analyzing examples from North and South America, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, he identifies recurrent patterns and offers useful lessons for future policymakers. Insurgencies arise from many sources of discontent, including foreign occupation, fraudulent elections, and religious persecution, but they also stem from ethnic hostilities, the aspirations of would-be elites, and traditions of political violence. Because insurgency is as much a political pheno
Content:
Front cover; Copyright; Contents; Prologue: Guerrilla Insurgency as a Political Problem; 1. Guerrilla Strategy and Tactics; 2. Some Wellsprings of Insurgency; 3. Religion and Insurgency in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centures; 4. Religion and Insurgency in the Twentieth Century; 5. Foreign Involvement with Insurgency; 6. Establishing Civilian Security; 7. Loyalists: Indigenous Anti-Insurgency; 8. The Centrality of Intelligence; 9. The Requirement of Rectitude; 10. The Utility of Amnesty; 11. The Question of Sufficient Force Levels; 12. Deploying U.S. Troops in a Counterinsurgent Role
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-346) and index
,
English
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Joes, Anthony James Resisting rebellion Lexington, Ky : University Press of Kentucky, ©2004
Language:
English
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