Modern Stateless Warfare

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vii

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

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      Pages 1-7

3. Insurgent Stateless Warfare

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9

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   2. Historical Background

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      Pages 11-33

   3. The Types and Modes of Insurgency

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      Pages 34-49

   4. Insurgent Strategies

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      Pages 50-76

   5. Terroristic Warfare and Strategies

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      Pages 77-99

   6. Comparisons with Criminality

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      Pages 100-123

4. The Calculus of Insurgency: Motive, Means and Opportunity

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 125-125

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   2. The Motives of Insurgency

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      Pages 127-142

   3. The Means of Insurgency

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      Pages 143-155

   4. Opportunity and Environments

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      Pages 156-179

   5. The Social-Political Environment

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      Pages 180-201

   6. Conclusion

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      Pages 202-212

5. Back Matter

   Pages 213-256

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This book focuses on insurgent stateless warfare in its guerrilla and terrorist modes and in its nationalist, maoist and postmaoist phases of modernization. Insurgency is compared with states' warfare and with criminality and then insurgents' motives, means and opportunities are analyzed from social-science, military and environmental perspectives.

• environment
• Historical Background
• insurgency
• state
• terrorism

PAUL BROOKER is Visitor in the Political Science Department of the University of Canterbury, UK, and the author of several books on non-democratic regimes.

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