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Useful Enemies: When Waging Wars Is More Important Than Winning Them - Hardcover

Keen, David

 
9780300162745: Useful Enemies: When Waging Wars Is More Important Than Winning Them
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 030016274X ISBN 13: 9780300162745
Verlag: Yale University Press, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

There are currently between twenty and thirty civil wars worldwide, while at a global level the Cold War has been succeeded by a "war on drugs" and a "war on terror" that continues to rage a decade after 9/11. Why is this, when we know how destructive war is in both human and economic terms? Why do the efforts of aid organizations and international diplomats founder so often?

In this important book David Keen investigates why conflicts are so prevalent and so intractable, even when one side has much greater military resources. Could it be that endemic disorder and a "state of emergency" are more useful than bringing conflict to a close? Keen asks who benefits from wars--whether economically, politically, or psychologically—and argues that in order to bring them successfully to an end we need to understand the complex vested interests on all sides.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

David Keen is professor of complex emergencies at the London School of Economics. He lives in Oxford, UK.

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Verlag
Yale University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2012
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
030016274X
ISBN 13 
9780300162745
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
311
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