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Modern Stateless Warfare

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  • © 2010

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  1. Paul Brooker
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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Paul Brooker
      Pages 1-7

  3. Insurgent Stateless Warfare

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9
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    2. Historical Background

      • Paul Brooker
      Pages 11-33

    3. The Types and Modes of Insurgency

      • Paul Brooker
      Pages 34-49

    4. Insurgent Strategies

      • Paul Brooker
      Pages 50-76

    5. Terroristic Warfare and Strategies

      • Paul Brooker
      Pages 77-99

    6. Comparisons with Criminality

      • Paul Brooker
      Pages 100-123

  4. The Calculus of Insurgency: Motive, Means and Opportunity

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 125-125
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    2. The Motives of Insurgency

      • Paul Brooker
      Pages 127-142

    3. The Means of Insurgency

      • Paul Brooker
      Pages 143-155

    4. Opportunity and Environments

      • Paul Brooker
      Pages 156-179

    5. The Social-Political Environment

      • Paul Brooker
      Pages 180-201

    6. Conclusion

      • Paul Brooker
      Pages 202-212

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 213-256
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About this book

This book focuses on insurgent stateless warfare in its guerrilla and terrorist modes and in its nationalist, maoist and postmaoist phases of modernization. Insurgency is compared with states' warfare and with criminality and then insurgents' motives, means and opportunities are analyzed from social-science, military and environmental perspectives.

About the author

PAUL BROOKER is Visitor in the Political Science Department of the University of Canterbury, UK, and the author of several books on non-democratic regimes.

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