Reconfiguring Intervention : complexity, resilience and the local turn in counterinsurgent warfare /: complexity, resilience and the local turn in counterinsurgent warfare. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Louise Wiuff Moe, Markus-Michael Müller, editors.
• Editors: Müller, Markus-Michael; Moe, Louise Wiuff
• Contents: Acknowledgments; Contents; Notes on Contributors; List of Acronyms ; Chapter 1: Introduction: Complexity, Resilience and the 'Local Turn' in Counterinsurgency; From Counterinsurgency To COIN 2.0 ; Counterinsurgency Beyond the State?; Governing 'Wicked Problems': Counterinsurgency Through the Lens of Complexity; Turning 'Local' as a Means of Expansion; Counterinsurgency and the Making and Remaking of Illiberal Liberalism; Outline of the Book; Note; Bibliography; Chapter 2: 'A Struggle for Control and Influence': Western Counterinsurgency and the Problematic of Autonomy. Liberalism and the Problematic of AutonomyCounterinsurgency and the Problematic of Autonomy; Rule at a Distance; Host Nation Ownership; Conclusion; Note; Bibliography; Chapter 3: Ethnographic Intelligence: The Human Terrain System and Its Enduring Legacy; HTS: the Early Years; Human Terrain: Evolution of a Concept; Peddling Counterinsurgency; Downward Spiral; Human Terrain After HTS; Cultural Intelligence, Special Ops Style; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 4: Grey's Anatomy Goes South: Biometrics, Racism, and Counterinsurgency in the Colonial Present; Biometrics in the War on Terror. Biometric Science and RacismCirculation and Control in the Colonial Present; Biometric Laboratories; Conclusion; Bibliography; Chapter 5: The Peacebuilding-Counterinsurgency Nexus in the Occupied Palestinian Territory; The Peacebuilding-Counterinsurgency Nexus; The Israel-Palestine 'Conflict' as a Site of Insurgency and Counterinsurgency; The Peacebuilding-Counterinsurgency Nexus in the oPt; Conclusion: War As Peace; Notes. 6. It is obviously problematic with what statistics to compare the Palestinian security services, as they expand beyond 'police' but they are certainly not an 'army', and all are stationed domestically. If we look at the UN figures published in 2010Chapter 6: Counterinsurgent Warfare and the Decentering of Sovereignty in Somalia; 'Brave Acknowledgements' of the Limitations of Conventional Military and State-centric Approaches; Decentering Sovereignty: a Shared Opportunity for Counterinsurgent Allies in the Case of Jubaland. Performing a 'Post-al Shabaab' Order: New Counterinsurgent Quasi-sovereignsFrom Interventionary Counterinsurgent Warfare to Post-interventionary Occupation; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 7: The 'New Path' to Peace: Cultivating Masculinities in Southern Thai Counterinsurgency; Policing Interior Frontiers and Cultivating Masculinities; Colonial Entanglements and Counterinsurgency in (Southern) Thailand; Entering Yalannanbaru; The Wrong Path: Positioning Masculinities Misled; Organizing Discipline: the Spatial and Temporal Setting of Yalannanbaru; Cultivating 'Good Habits'
• Publisher Details: London : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 355.0218; Political science; Counterinsurgency; Politics and war; Terrorism; Peace; HISTORY -- Military -- Other; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Military Science; Counterinsurgency; Political Science -- Political Freedom & Security -- Terrorism; Political Science -- Peace; Terrorism, armed struggle; Peace studies & conflict resolution; Political Science -- Political Freedom & Security -- International Security; Warfare & defence; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137588777; 1137588772
• Related ISBNs: 9781137588760; 1137588764
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