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Author_Donald M Snow
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Clausewitzian Framework
Coca Cultivation
Coca Growers
Cold War International System
Cold War System
competition
Counterinsurgent Success
counterterrorism strategies
countries
Criminal Insurgencies
Crop Substitution
Distant Thunder
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ethnic violence
failed states research
guerrilla
internal
internal armed conflict analysis
Internal Wars
international
mobile
Mobile Guerrilla Warfare
narco-terrorism
NBC Manufacturer
NBC Weapon
Operation Restore Hope
Ozone Depletion
Ozone Layer Depletion
political instability
postCold War
SL
state failure
system
tier
Tier Countries
Tier Problems
Traditional Insurgencies
United States
Vice Versa
war
wars
World War Iii
Product details
- ISBN 9781563249846
- Weight: 630g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 31 Aug 1997
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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The main locu of instability, conflict and violence in the post-Cold War world is the periphery - particularly the poorest regions of what used to be called the Third World. Internal wars of secession, struggles for power and chaos in failed or failing states are the dominant forms, expressed in intercommunal or ethnic violence, domestic and international acts of terrorism, and, increasingly, essentially criminal insurgencies with no political objective. This completely revised edition of "Distant Thunder" brings the problem of Third-World conflict into the post-Cold War era. Now that the periphery is no longer the site of surrogate competitions between rival political-economic systems, when and how should the developed countries intervene in internal wars outside the compass of their traditional geopolitical interest - and what can such intervention be realistically expected to accomplish? The new edition shows how secessionist and ethnic conflicts, terrorism and the drug trade fit into the context of international politics, examines the post-Cold War dynamics of political and economic decline, state failure, and the limits of interventionism, includes case studies of the Shining Path of Peru and its degeneration from a Maoist-type insurgency to a narco-terrorist ring and the Somali crisis as examples of the difficulties of international intervention in internal wars.
