Routledge Handbook of Proxy Wars

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

‘.. the Handbook provides a comprehensive toolbox for readers to make an informed judgement about whether the war in Ukraine (or any other conflict) is a proxy war and what that means.’

Giuseppe Spatafora, University of Oxford