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Record Nr.

UNINA9910629289003321

Autore

Rodríguez Federmán

Titolo

American and Canadian counterinsurgency strategies in Afghanistan / / Federmán Rodríguez

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2022]

©2022

ISBN

9783031182792

9783031182785

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (251 pages)

Collana

Canada and International Affairs

Disciplina

355.0218

Soggetti

Counterinsurgency - Afghanistan - History

Counterinsurgency

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction -- 2. Countries with Different Material Capabilities Behaving Similarly -- 3. Unipolarity and Irregular Warfare: Assessing the Afghanistan Interventions Strategic Environment -- 4. American and Canadian Security Beliefs: Transitioning to Similar Foreign and Security Policies during the Afghanistan Intervention -- 5. Domestic Hurdles, Canadian and American Foreign Policy Executives(FPEs) Structural Autonomy and Resource-Extraction Capability -- 6. Conclusion: Unravelling the Research Puzzle.

Sommario/riassunto

The book aims to explain the factors that brought about a high degree of similarity between American and Canadian foreign and security policies during the Afghanistan intervention. Specifically, it seeks to explain why, despite their different positions in the international distribution of power, the United States and Canada embraced similar counterinsurgency (COIN) strategies from 2005/2006 to 2011. During this time, the United States and Canada fought against insurgent groups, sought to maintain stabilized areas by mentoring Afghan forces, and invested in infrastructure and governance. These goals, which corresponded to the clear, hold, and build COIN components, entailed sending troops and civilian officials to a war zone and committing financial resources. Federman Rodriguez is Assistant



Professor of the Faculty of International Relations, Political and Urban Studies at Rosario University, Bogota, Colombia.