Outsourced Empire
Pluto Press (Verlag)
978-0-7453-3703-6 (ISBN)
Andrew Thomson rethinks the history of US imperialism, from the Cold War to today, to reveal how paramilitaries, militias, mercenaries, private armies, and contractors have always been central to US-sponsored insurgencies and US counterinsurgent statecraft.
Examining a broad range of events from the Bay of Pigs to the occupation of Iraq, and from the Soviet-Afghan war to the ongoing conflict in Syria, Thomson offers an analysis of the evolution of US support for various para-institutional actors or non-state armed forces. He demonstrates how and why militias, mercenaries, and private military companies have increasingly formed a central part of US imperial strategies designed to influence political and economic conditions abroad.
Drawing on declassified documents including military training manuals, CIA communiqus, and national security documents, Outsourced Empire reveals new evidence that helps us understand these institutions and their collective role in maintaining global order.
Andrew Thomson is a Lecturer at Queen's University Belfast and Research Fellow at the Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice. He researches in the areas of militias and paramiltiaries, dynamics of violence in civil wars, US foreign policy, the Colombian conflict and peace process, counterinsurgency and "irregular" warfare and terrorism.
Introduction
1. US Empire: Statecraft in the Global South and Para-State Networks
2. Cold War Statecraft and the Covert Principle: ''Power Moves Involved in the Overthrow of an Unfriendly Government?"
3. US Counterinsurgency: The Growing Paramilitary Movement
4. The Institutionalization of Para-State Networks: Nicaraguan Contras and Beyond
5. Continuity After the Cold War: the Evolution of Para-State Networks
6. The Irregular Warfare and the War on Terror: Consolidation into the Future
Conclusion
| Erscheinungsdatum | 21.08.2018 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 135 x 215 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte | |
| Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht | |
| Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Besonderes Strafrecht | |
| Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7453-3703-1 / 0745337031 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7453-3703-6 / 9780745337036 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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