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The Long War - Insurgency, Counterinsurgency and Collapsing States
Series: ThirdWorlds
The rise and fall of the Cold War coincided with the universalization and consolidation of the modern nation-state as the key unit of the wider international system. A key characteristic of the post-Cold War era, in which the US has emerged as the sole superpower, is the growing number of...
To Be Published August 15th 2013 by Routledge
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Information Strategy and Warfare
A Guide to Theory and Practice
Series: Contemporary Security Studies
This volume develops information strategy as a construct equal in importance to military strategy as an influential tool of statecraft. John Arquilla and Douglas A. Borer explore three principal themes: the rise of the ‘information domain’ and information strategy as an equal partner alongside...
Published June 25th 2009 by Routledge
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The Long War - Insurgency, Counterinsurgency and Collapsing States
Series: ThirdWorlds
The rise and fall of the Cold War coincided with the universalization and consolidation of the modern nation-state as the key unit of the wider international system. A key characteristic of the post-Cold War era, in which the US has emerged as the sole superpower, is the growing number of...
Published February 19th 2009 by Routledge
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Superpowers Defeated
Vietnam and Afghanistan Compared
During the Cold War, military conflicts in Vietnam and Afghanistan validated the importanct of war in global power dynamics. But military intervention proved not to be politically sustainable for the USA and the USSR. This study investigates the parallels and differences in the two conflicts....
Published April 28th 1999 by Routledge
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The Rise of East Asia
Critical Visions of the Pacific Century
There is great interest in the Pacific Century and what its implications for the future will be. The rapid economic growth of East Asia was already setting the region apart from the rest of the world by the 1970s. By the 1980s the trend was seen to have spread southward to Thailand, Malaysia and...
Published June 4th 1997 by Routledge