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The New Western Way of War: Risk-Transfer War and its Crisis in Iraq M Shaw

The New Western Way of War: Risk-Transfer War and its Crisis in Iraq By M Shaw

The New Western Way of War: Risk-Transfer War and its Crisis in Iraq by M Shaw


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Summary

* Develops a major new theory of modern warfare, based around the idea that risks in modern war are placed on civilians rather than the military. * Written by a leading sociologist of war, the book includes analyses of recent conflicts such as the two Iraq wars, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Kosovo and the Falklands.

The New Western Way of War: Risk-Transfer War and its Crisis in Iraq Summary

The New Western Way of War: Risk-Transfer War and its Crisis in Iraq by M Shaw

In this new work, Martin Shaw charts the development of a new warfare, after Vietnam, through the Falklands, the Gulf, Kosovo and Afghanistan, and argues that, in Iraq and the War on Terror, the USA has consistently flouted the key rules that enabled Western states to fight these earlier wars successfully.

The New Western Way of War: Risk-Transfer War and its Crisis in Iraq Reviews

A compelling piece of engaged social science (that) does much to clarify what is at stake in contemporary warfare. International AffairsThe New Western Way of War is about new ways of interpreting war. By engaging innovative concepts like global surveillance or risk-transfer, Martin Shaw offers us an intriguing glimpse of a world beyond war. Mary Kaldor, London School of Economics and Political ScienceRoll over Clausewitz: in the global war on terror, politics has become a continuation of war by other means, including global surveillance, disinformation, unlawful detention, abrogation of civil liberties, faith-based violence, pervasive fear, accidental killing, and the transfer of risk to an increasingly vulnerable citizenry. Martin Shaw targets this new western way of war with the kind of discriminate intelligence and discrete passion that makes all the smart bombs and latter-day Slim Pickens riding them look very dumb indeed. James Der Derian, Brown University

About M Shaw

Martin Shaw, Professor of International Relations and Politics at the University of Sussex

Table of Contents

* List of Tables * Acknowledgements * Introduction * Chapter 1. The New Western Way of War from Vietnam to Iraq * Chapter 2. Theories of the New Western Way of War * A Western way of war * Chapter 3. The Global Surveillance Mode of Warfare * Chapter 4. Rules of Risk-Transfer War * Chapter 5. Iraq: Risk Economy of a War * Chapter 6. A Way of War in Crisis * Postscript * Notes * References and Bibliography * Index

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GOR012928314
9780745634111
0745634117
The New Western Way of War: Risk-Transfer War and its Crisis in Iraq by M Shaw
Used - Like New
Paperback
Polity Press
20050403
164
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