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Useful enemies when waging wars is more important than winning them
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Useful enemies [electronic resource] : when waging wars is more important than winning them / David Keen.
ISBN
0300183712
9780300183719
030016274X
1280780681
9780300162745
9781280780684
Published
New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2012.
Physical Description
1 online resource (vii, 311 pages)
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Access is available to the Yale community.
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Summary
Keen investigates why conflicts are so prevalent and so intractable, even when one side has much greater military resources. He 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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When waging wars is more important than winning them
EBSCOhost eBook collection, Yale University Press.
Other formats
Print version: Keen, David, 1958- Useful enemies. New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2012
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 09, 2019
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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