LEADER 03306oam 2200517I 450 001 9910827483203321 005 20240410014900.0 010 $a1-315-70515-X 010 $a1-317-47299-3 024 7 $a10.4324/9781315705156 035 $a(OCoLC)958109204 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC2037863 035 $a(CKB)3710000000409127 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000409127 100 $a20180706e20151997 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aDistant thunder $epatterns of conflict in the developing world /$fDonald M. Snow 205 $a2nd ed. 210 1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2015. 215 $a1 online resource (241 p.) 300 $a"First published 1997 by M.E. Sharpe"--t.p. verso. 311 $a1563249847 311 $a9781563249846 327 $ach. 1. The changing face of violent conflict -- ch. 2. Second tier problems in a first tier-dominated world -- ch. 3. The venerable foe : insurgency -- ch. 4. The intractable nemesis : counterinsurgency -- ch. 5. New internal war -- ch. 6. The other challenges : counternarcotics, counterterrorism, and regional conflict -- ch. 7. Cases in point : Sendero Luminoso and restore hope -- ch. 8. Distant thunder or siren's call? 330 $aThe main locu of instability, conflict and violence in the post-Cold War world is the periphery - particularly the poorest regions of what used to be called the Third World. Internal wars of secession, struggles for power and chaos in failed or failing states are the dominant forms, expressed in intercommunal or ethnic violence, domestic and international acts of terrorism, and, increasingly, essentially criminal insurgencies with no political objective. This completely revised edition of "Distant Thunder" brings the problem of Third-World conflict into the post-Cold War era. Now that the periphery is no longer the site of surrogate competitions between rival political-economic systems, when and how should the developed countries intervene in internal wars outside the compass of their traditional geopolitical interest - and what can such intervention be realistically expected to accomplish? The new edition shows how secessionist and ethnic conflicts, terrorism and the drug trade fit into the context of international politics, examines the post-Cold War dynamics of political and economic decline, state failure, and the limits of interventionism, includes case studies of the Shining Path of Peru and its degeneration from a Maoist-type insurgency to a narco-terrorist ring and the Somali crisis as examples of the difficulties of international intervention in internal wars. 606 $aPolitical violence$zDeveloping countries 606 $aInsurgency$zDeveloping countries 606 $aTerrorism$zDeveloping countries 607 $aDeveloping countries$xForeign relations 615 0$aPolitical violence 615 0$aInsurgency 615 0$aTerrorism 676 $aELECTRONIC BOOK 676 $a327.09048 700 $aSnow$b Donald M.$f1943-,$0552032 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910827483203321 996 $aDistant thunder$94117328 997 $aUNINA