1st Edition
The Long War - Insurgency, Counterinsurgency and Collapsing States
The Long War: insurgency, counterinsurgency and collapsing states
Authors: Mark T. Berger; Douglas A. Borer
From 'shock and awe' to 'hearts and minds': the fall and rise of US counterinsurgency capability in Iraq
Author: Kalev I. Sepp
Seconded to the Pentagon as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations
Assistant Professor in the Department of Defense Analysis at the NPS
From collapsing states to neo-trusteeship: the limits to solving the problem of 'precarious statehood' in the 21st century
Author: Richard Caplan
Professor of International Relations and Fellow of Linacre College, University of Oxford
Engaging or withdrawing, winning or losing? The contradictions of counterinsurgency policy in Afghanistan and Iraq
Author: Andrea M. Lopez
Associate Professor of Political Science and Co-ordinator of the International Studies Major Program at Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, PA
The battle for Iraq: Islamic insurgencies in comparative perspective
Author: Glenn E. Robinson
Associate Professor in the Department of Defense Analysis at the NPS.
Less is more: the problematic future of irregular warfare in an era of collapsing states
Author: Hy S. Rothstein
Senior Lecturer in the Department of Defense Analysis and a member of the Center on Terrorism and Irregular Warfare at the nps.
Things come together: symbolic violence and guerrilla mobilisation
Authors:
Gordon H. Mccormick – Professor and Chairman of the Department of Defense Analysis at the NPS.
Frank Giordano -- Professor in the Department of Defense Analysis at the NPS.
Things fall apart: the endgame dynamics of internal wars
Authors:
Gordon H. Mccormick -- Professor and Chairman of the Department of Defense Analysis at the NPS.
Steven B. Horton -- Professor of Operations Research, Department of Mathematical Sciences, United States Academy at West Point.
Lauren A. Harrison -- Research Associate with the Center on Terrorism and Irregular Warfare at the NPS
The end of war as we knew it? Insurgency, counterinsurgency and lessons from the forgotten history of early terror networks
Author: John Arquilla -- Professor in the Department of Defense Analysis at the NPS.
The misleading problem of failed states: a 'socio-geography' of terrorism in the post-9/11 era
Authors:
Anna Simons -- Associate Professor in the Department of Defense Analysis at the NPS
David Tucker -- Associate Professor in the Department of Defense Analysis at the NPS.
Caudillos and the crisis of the Colombian state: fragmented sovereignty, the war system and the privatisation of counterinsurgency in Colombia
Author: Nazih Richani -- Associate Professor and Director of the Latin American Studies Program at Kean University
The insurgency of global Empire and the counterinsurgency of local resistance: new world order in an era of civilian provisional authority
Author: Timothy W. Luke -- University Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, VA. He is also the Program Chair for Government and International Affairs in the School of Public and International Affairs, and the founding director of the Alliance for Social, Political, Ethical, and Social Thought (aspect) in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences at Virginia Tech.
The last empire? From nation-building compulsion to nation-wrecking futility and beyond
Author: Radhika Desai -- Professor and Head of the Department of Political Studies at the University of Manitoba.
All roads lead to and from Iraq: the Long War and the transformation of the nation-state system
Authors: Douglas A. Borer; Mark T. Berger
Biography
Mark T Berger is Visiting Professor in the Department of Defense Analysis at the Naval Postgraduate School (nps), Monterey, CA. He is on leave from the International Studies Program and the Department of Spanish and Latin American Studies at the University of New South Wales, Australia. He is the author of The Battle for Asia: From Decolonization to Globalization (2004); editor From Nation Building to State Building (2007) and co-author, with Heloise Weber, of Rethinking the Third World: International Development and World Politics (2007, forthcoming).
Douglas A Borer is Associate Professor in the Department of Defense Analysis and a member of the Center on Terrorism and Irregular Warfare at the NPS. His research has focused on the topic of political legitimacy and warfare, nation building, and strategic thought. He is the author of Superpowers Defeated: Vietnam and Afghanistan Compared (1999) and co-editor, with John Arquilla, of Information Strategy: A Guide to Theory and Practice (2007).
