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Over the last decade, the notion of counter-insurgency (COIN) has risen to prominence as the dominant paradigm in American and British thinking about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Despite the high level of attention paid to the subject by military analysts, the broader theoretical and historical factors which underpin counter-insurgency have received comparatively little critical scrutiny. This volume addresses the gap in existing scholarship by exploring and challenging several critical aspects of the prevailing orthodoxy on COIN. This critical reappraisal of counter-insurgency thinking and practice brings together a number of international academics and practitioners, providing a pluralistic insight on the effectiveness of counter-insurgency operations from military, academic, media and civilian administrative perspectives. It also combines US and British insights into the theory and practise of twenty-first century COIN. With the continuing relevance of 'big third party' COIN to Western engagement in future wars of choice, this book provides an important and timely analysis of an issue which will continue to impact American and British security policy and future interventions. This book will appeal to scholars of Military Studies, Strategic Studies, Security Studies and International Relations and to practitioners and policy-makers working in the field of counter-insurgency.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Politics & government International relations

• Full title: New Counter-insurgency Era in Critical Perspective
• Author: David Martin Jones
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 375
• EAN: 9781137336934
• ISBN: 1137336935
• ID: 02096072
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Weight: 608 g
• Dimensions: 218 × 145 × 27 mm
• Date of publishing: 17. January 2014

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