{"title":"Armed conflict Books","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"savage-continent-9780141034515","title":"Savage Continent","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKeith Lowe''s \u003ci\u003eSavage Continent \u003c\/i\u003eis an awe-inspiring portrait of how Europe emerged from the ashes of WWII.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eThe end of the Second World War saw a terrible explosion of violence across Europe. Prisoners murdered jailers. Soldiers visited atrocities on civilians. Resistance fighters killed and pilloried collaborators. Ethnic cleansing, civil war, rape and murder were rife in the days, months and years after hostilities ended. 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This excellent book paints a little-known and frightening picture of a continent in the embrace of lawlessness and chaos -- Ian Kershaw","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732401860951,"sku":"9780141034515","price":13.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780141034515.jpg?v=1719996723"},{"product_id":"the-american-war-in-afghanistan-9780197550779","title":"The American War in Afghanistan","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMalkasian offers a nonpareil history of a war that initially was viewed as one of necessity but increasingly became one of choice. His book sets the standard for all future works that will examine the causes and nature of yet another unhappy American military adventure on the mainland of Asia. * Dov S. 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Spanning warfare from prehistory to the 21st century, the book shows that, neither an irresistible drive nor a cultural invention, deadly violence and warfare have figured prominently in our behavioural toolkit since the dawn of our species. People have always alternated between cooperation, peaceful competition, and violence to attain evolution-shaped human desires. A marked shift in the balance between these options has occurred since the onset of the industrial age. Rather than modern war becoming more costly (it hasn''t), it is peace that has become more rewarding. Scrutinizing existing theories concerning the decline of war - such as the ''democratic peace'' and ''capitalist peace'' - Gat shows that they in fact partake of a broader Modernization Peace that has been growing since 1815. By now, war has disappeared within the world''s most developed areas. 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Russia''s invasion of Georgia and intervention in Ukraine, the USA''s military operations in Syria, and Saudi Arabia''s campaign to restore the government of Yemen by force all raise questions about the law on intervention. The ''war on terror'' that began after the 9\/11 terrorist attacks on the USA has not been won. It has spread far beyond Afghanistan: it has led to targeted killings in Pakistan, Somalia, and Yemen, and to intervention against ISIS in Iraq and Syria. Is there an expanding right of self-defence against non-state actors? Is the use of force effective? 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Your thinking cannot survive this book unchanged. Fortunately, Grove says, ‘the end of the world is never the end of everything’ (though it may well be the end of us).” -- Bonnie Honig, author of * Public Things: Democracy in Disrepair *\u003cbr\u003e“What Beck did for risk society, Hardt and Negri for empire, and Barad for technoscience, Jairus Victor Grove does brilliantly for global violence, delivering an ecology of warfare that is not only a corrosive critique of the three horsemen of our now daily apocalypse—geopolitics, biopolitics, and cybernetics—but a creative strategy for sustaining life now and thereafter. Grove is a philosopher with a hammer, writer with a stiletto, and artist with a spray can.” -- James Der Derian, Michael Hintze Chair of International Security Studies, the University of Sydney\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eSavage Ecology\u003c\/i\u003e is an extraordinarily rich text. . . . 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This book also presents a detailed, sympathetic view of the aspirations of Syrians themselves, most notably Kurds, Christians, the displaced, and Syrian women who will have a vital role in future Syrian reconciliation. -- Robert S. Ford, Senior Fellow, Middle East Institute, Washington D.C and former U.S. Ambassador to Syria\u003cbr\u003eWhile the full toll of human suffering may never be known, the people of Syria and the world must know more about one of the most horrifying outgrowths of the Arab Spring. Phillips provides an informed and compassionate survey of the Syrian civil war and the international meddling that has exacerbated the disaster. -- Danielle Pletka, Senior Fellow in Foreign and Defense Policy Studies, The American Enterprise Institute (AEI), Washington D.C\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrontline Syria \u003c\/i\u003eis truly a ‘must-read’ for any student of the catastrophe that is modern Syria...as well as the bipartisan fecklessness of American foreign policy. With an intense combination of scholarly rigor and the objective compassion that comes from his own personal experiences, David Phillips narrates the terrifying descent of Syria from a stable if prosaic backwater to that of a Hobbesian state of nature. From the ’Red Lines’ that weren’t to the abandonment of its Kurdish allies, his searing insights and conclusions also provide jarring punctuation for the United States’ declining moral and political leadership, and the implications of this tragic abdication for the Middle East and beyond. -- Thomas S. Kaplan, entrepreneur and conservationist, and Chairman of Justice for Kurds\u003cbr\u003eSyria’s once promising revolution failed, plunging the country into chaos and anarchy.  Drawing on his decades of experience as an American diplomat, peacemaker and discreet back-channel, David Phillips explores what went wrong. 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Staniland's contribution to insurgency studies is reminiscent to how the field of critical terrorism studies emerged from scholarly dissatisfaction with the pre-existing quality of work in terrorism studies, particularly in terms of its epistemology, ontology, ethics, and praxis. His mission is ambitious, but \u003ci\u003eNetworks of Rebellion \u003c\/i\u003edelivers against it and has laid the foundations of a new research agenda.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Will Carter * Small Wars and Insurgencies *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith the reported emergence of some 1,000 rebel groups in the spreading Syrian civil war and the stark contrast of those that seem organized and formidable as opposed to transitory, a careful study of insurgents' structures and networks is most timely. Staniland... focuses on whether the groups are 'horizontally' or 'vertically' integrated or relatively isolated across\/within locations, collaborators, and subsidiaries.... 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Battles could last for months and led to casualties measured in hundreds of thousands for attacker and defender alike. After most of these attacks, only a short section of the front would have moved and only by a kilometer or two. After Gallipoli, Australians were moved to fight in France on the western Front, in battles including the Battle of the Somme. On the first day of the 1916 Battle of the Somme, 60,000 Allies were casualties, including 20,000 deaths. The principal adversaries on the Western Front, who fielded armies of millions of men, were Germany to the East against a western alliance to the West consisting of France and the United Kingdom with sizable contingents from the British Empire, especially the Dominions. The United States entered the war in 1917 and by the summer of 1918 had an army of around half a million men which rose to a million by the time the Armistice was signed on November 11, 1918. 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Hagerty, University of Maryland Did the spread of nuclear weapons to India and Pakistan deter war or provoke aggression? Two prominent scholars of South Asian politics address this important question in a debate filled with insight and wit. Some readers will agree with Sumit Ganguly's optimistic assessment, and some will agree with S. Paul Kapur's more pessimistic appraisal. All will come away with a more nuanced understanding of the complex political effects of nuclear weapons. -- Scott D. Sagan, The Caroline S.G. Munro Professor of Political Science, Stanford University A lucid and compact... distillation of an important policy debate. Booklist [The] combination of analytical rigour and empirical evidence makes this book a wonderful read as well as taking the optimist-pessimist debate to a new level of sophistication. -- Harsh Pant International Affairs Their able and articulate treatments of these issues do the reader a service by crisply laying out the competing perspectives. 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