1st Edition

Rethinking the Nature of War

By Jan Angstrom, Isabelle Duyvesteyn Copyright 2005
264 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

Have globalization, virulent ethnic differences, and globally operating insurgents fundamentally changed the nature of war in the last decade? Interpretations of war as driven by politics and state rationale, formulated most importantly by the 19th century practitioner Carl von Clausewitz, have received strong criticism. Political explanations have been said to fall short in explaining... Read more

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

Biography

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.