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Decolonization and conflict : colonial comparisons and legacies

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Insurgency-based irregular warfare typifies armed conflict in the post-Cold War age.

For some years now, western and other governments have struggled to contend with ideologically driven guerrilla movements, religiously inspired militias, and systematic targeting of civilian populations.

Numerous conflicts of this type are rooted in experiences of empire breakdown.

Yet few multi-empire studies of decolonisation’s violence exist. Decolonization and Conflict brings together expertise on a variety of different cases to offer new perspectives on the colonial conflicts that engulfed Europe’s empires after 1945.

The contributors analyse multiple forms of colonial counter-insurgency from the military engagement of anti-colonial movements to the forced removal of civilian populations and the application of new doctrines of psychological warfare.

Contributors to the collection also show how insurgencies, their propaganda and methods of action were inherently transnational and inter-connected.

The resulting study is a vital contribution to our understanding of contested decolonization.

It emphasises the global connections at work and reveals the contemporary resonances of both anti-colonial insurgencies and the means devised to counter them.

It is essential reading for students and scholars of empire, decolonization, and asymmetric warfare.

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Bloomsbury Academic
1474250378 / 9781474250375
Paperback / softback
325.309
27/12/2018
United Kingdom
English
ix, 280 pages
24 cm
Reprint. Originally published: 2017.