Useful enemies when waging wars is more important than winning them
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 eco...
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New Haven, CT
Yale University Press
2012
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Resource wars
- Aiding resource wars?
- Vietnam: useful enemies and useless allies
- Afghanistan
- The political functions of war
- Wars within wars
- The politics of permanent emergency
- Case study of a permanent emergency: the United States
- Shame and the psychological functions of violence
- Conclusion.