Democratic Counterinsurgents How Democracies Can Prevail in Irregula
This book explores the ways in which democracies can win counterinsurgencies when they implement a proper strategy. At a time when the USA is retrenching from two bungled foreign wars that involved deadly insurgent uprisings, this is a particularly import
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POLITICAL VIOLENCE Democratic Counterinsurgents How Democracies Can Prevail in Irregular Warfare
William Patterson
Rethinking Political Violence Series Editor Roger Mac Ginty Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies University of Manchester, UK
This series provides a new space in which to interrogate and challenge much of the conventional wisdom of political violence. International and multidisciplinary in scope, this series explores the causes, types and effects of contemporary violence connecting key debates on terrorism, insurgency, civil war and peace-making. The timely Rethinking Political Violence offers a sustained and refreshing analysis reappraising some of the fundamental questions facing societies in conflict today and understanding attempts to ameliorate the effects of political violence.
More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/14499
William Patterson
Democratic Counterinsurgents How Democracies Can Prevail in Irregular Warfare
William Patterson US Department of State Washington DC, USA
Rethinking Political Violence ISBN 978-1-137-60059-2 ISBN 978-1-137-60060-8 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-60060-8
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This book is dedicated to my grandmother, Margaret Sue Carman-Kingsbury, who never forgot. And to my mother, Amy Sue Dulka.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This book would not have been written without the guidance of three academic mentors. Dr. Kurt Taylor Gaubatz was especially influential. Through conversa
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