1st Edition
Routledge Handbook of Proxy Wars
This Handbook is the first volume to comprehensively examine the challenges, intricacies, and dynamics of proxy wars, in their various facets.
The volume aims to capture the significantly growing interest in the topic at a critical juncture when wars of many guises are becoming multifaceted proxy wars. Most often, proxy wars have wide-ranging implications for international security and are, therefore, a critically important subject of inquiry. The Handbook seeks to understand and explain proxy wars conceptually, theoretically, and empirically, with a focus on the numerous policy challenges and dilemmas they pose. To do so, it presents a multi- and interdisciplinary assessment of proxy wars focused on the causes, dynamics, and processes underpinning the phenomenon, across time and space and a multitude of actors throughout human history. The Handbook is divided into six thematic sections, as follows:
Part I: Approaches to the Study of Proxy Wars
Part II: Historical Perspectives on Proxy Wars
Part III: Actors in Proxy Wars
Part IV: Dynamics of Proxy Wars
Part V: Case Studies of Proxy Wars
Part VI: The Future of Proxy Wars
By bringing together many leading scholars in a synthesis of expertise, this Handbook provides a unique and rigorous account of research into proxy war, which so far has been largely missing from the debate.
This book will be of much interest to students of strategic studies, security studies, foreign policy, political violence, and International Relations.
1. The Study of Proxy Wars
Assaf Moghadam, Vladimir Rauta, and Michel Wyss
PART I: APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF PROXY WARS
2. Causal Logics of Proxy Wars
Matthew Wiger and Kyle Atwell
3. Quantitative Approaches to Proxy Wars
Vanessa Meier
4. Formal Theory and Proxy Wars
Alexandra Chinchilla
5. State Sponsorship of Terrorism and Proxy Wars
Hannah Chesterton and Tricia Bacon
6. Covert Action and Proxy Wars
Magda Long
7. International Law and Proxy Wars: A Critical Assessment
Daphné Richemond-Barak
8. Politics, Positionality, and Colonial Persistence in Proxy Wars
Anna A. Meier and Layla E. Picard
PART II: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES ON PROXY WARS
9. Proxy Wars in History: A Longue Durée Perspective
Geraint Hughes
10. Proxy Wars in the Interwar Period: The Spanish Civil War
Giuseppe Spatafora
11. Proxy Wars and the Cold War: An East-West Perspective
Yaacov Falkov
12. The Historical Evolution of Proxy Wars: 1945-2022
Alexandra Stark
PART III: ACTORS IN PROXY WARS
13. Militias and Proxy Wars
Ben Hammett and Vladimir Rauta
14. Tribes and Proxy Wars
Haian Dukhan and Francesco Belcastro
15. Organized Crime and Proxy Wars
Colin P. Clarke and Phil Williams
16. Diasporas and Proxy Wars
Sara Daub
PART IV: DYNAMICS OF PROXY WARS
17. Controlling Proxies: An Analytical Framework
Sara Plana
18. Engaging Proxies: A US Perspective
Liam Collins and Alex Deep
19. Arming Proxies: Ethical and Legal Dilemmas
Laurie R. Blank
20. Confronting Proxies
Amos C. Fox
21. Proxy War Termination
Niklas Karlén
22. Consequences of Proxy Wars
Andrew Mumford
PART V: CASE STUDIES OF PROXY WARS
23. Proxy Wars in Africa
Erin Kimball Damman and Christopher Day
24. Proxy Wars in the Horn of Africa
Hilary Matfess and Terrence Lyons
25. Proxy Wars in the Middle East
Shahram Akbarzadeh and William Gourlay
26. Iran’s Proxy War Strategy
Nakissa Jahanbani and Suzanne Weedon Levy
27. Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units
Inna Rudolf
28. Proxy War Dynamics in Yemen
Gregory Johnsen and Thomas Juneau
29. Proxy Wars in the Post-Soviet Space
Andrew S. Bowen
30. Proxy Wars in South Asia
Abbas Farasoo and Farkhondeh Akbari
31. Proxy Wars in Latin America
Jorge Mantilla
PART VI: THE FUTURE OF PROXY WARS
32. Proxy Wars in Cyber-Space
Kerstin Zettl-Schabath
33. Proxy Wars and Strategic Competition
Frank G. Hoffman and Andrew Orner
34. The Return of Great Power Proxy Wars?
Erin K. Jenne and David S. Siroky
Biography
Assaf Moghadam is the Dean of the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy at Reichman University. He holds fellowships at the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point and the Center on National Security at Fordham Law School.
Vladimir Rauta is a lecturer in politics and international relations with the School of Politics, Economics, and International Relations at the University of Reading, United Kingdom.
Michel Wyss is a scientific assistant at the Military Academy at ETH Zurich and a doctoral candidate at Leiden University. He also serves as a specialist officer in the Swiss Armed Forces.
'The Routledge Handbook of Proxy Wars will be the go-to guide for understanding the many facets of proxy wars today and of those in the past. Assaf Moghadam, Vladimir Rauta, and Michel Wyss have brought together a wide range of established and emerging experts who assess the problem from multiple perspectives and offer numerous insights to one of today's most pressing challenges.'
Daniel Byman, Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA
'A definitive compendium of essays on proxy warfare from the historical, legal, political and theoretical perspectives, The Routledge Handbook of Proxy Wars will doubtless prove to be the seminal work in a field whose time has come. Together these articles build an indispensable foundation not only for understanding the many-faceted phenomenon of proxy warfare but for anticipating the future challenges it may pose.’
Karen Greenberg, Fordham University, USA
'Fighting the conflicts of others is a phenomenon that has accompanied humanity throughout the ages. This wonderful collection offers readers a comprehensive overview, as well as thought-provoking insights into the past, present and future of proxy wars. With their specific logics, relationships and processes, proxy wars, as the authors rightly argue, deserve to be considered as a mature field of academic investigation. This handbook provides a benchmark, and therefore deserves high praise.'
Isabelle Duyvesteyn, Professor of International Studies, Leiden University, The Netherlands
