LEADER 04451nam 2200613 450 001 996308766003316 005 20210430220048.0 010 $a3-11-047170-1 010 $a3-11-047124-8 024 7 $a10.1515/9783110471243 035 $a(CKB)3710000000553313 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4332918 035 $a(WaSeSS)IndRDA00059160 035 $a(DE-B1597)463422 035 $a(OCoLC)1004872149 035 $a(OCoLC)1013948131 035 $a(OCoLC)979906631 035 $a(OCoLC)980174440 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783110471243 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4332918 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11140022 035 $a(OCoLC)939265228 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000553313 100 $a20160618h20152015 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aInside War $eunderstanding the evolution of organised violence in the global era /$fFabio Armao ; managing editor, Magdalena Randall-Schab ; language editor, Adam Tod Leverton ; translated by Kora E. Ba?ttig von Wittelsbach and Emilia bianca Pisani 210 1$aBerlin :$cDe Gruyter Open,$d[2015] 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (224 pages) 311 $a3-11-047119-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction --$tAcknowledgments --$tPart I --$t1. Old Wars, New Wars --$tPart II --$t2. Violence and the Human Factor --$t3. Military Apparatuses --$t4. Battlefields --$t5. The Propaganda Machine --$t6. War Political Economy --$tPart III --$t7. Perspectives on the Coming World --$t8. Conclusion. Urban Resistance to Violence --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aThe post-Cold War era was characterised by both the recurrence of state wars and the spread of forms of organised violence other than wars. Asymmetric warfare between alliances led by the USA and groups of insurgents, such as those witnessed in Afghanistan and Iraq, coexist alongside domestic conflicts, such as that of former Yugoslavia and, more recently, Libya and Syria; and still other conflicts involving gangs, mafias or narco-traffickers. The massive military-industrial complexes conceived in the context of the threat of nuclear Armageddon are still there of course, but they now coexist with irregular armies of insurgents carrying out massacres through the use of light weapons and improvised explosives devices. This book oppose the idea that this situation prefigures the return to an anarchical, pre-political condition, by assuming that new wars are rather the product of the blurring of the public-private divide, induced by the end of the Cold War, together with globalisation. As a consequence, also the internal and external factors are blurred; and ever more permeable and elusive is becoming even the border between war and crime. Inside War goes beyond a state-centered analysis and adopts an interdisciplinary and multilayered approach, and is intended to foster the dialogue among researchers from different fields. It places war at the core of analysis, assuming that the reality of war is what we make of it; and that the only insurmountable limit to our comprehension of war is our way of knowing and representing it. Fabio Armao teaches courses in Politics and Globalisation Processes, and Criminal Systems. He has been Visiting Professor at Cornell University, and co-convenor of the Standing Group on Organized Crime, European Consortium for Political Research. Founding member of T.wai (Torino World Affair Institute), he is also member of the Editorial Board of 'Global Crime'. His research interests and publications focus on international wars and geopolitics, on violent non-state actors and transnational organised crime, and on urban security. 606 $aInternational relations 608 $aElectronic books. 610 $aWar, Violent non-state actors, Organised crime, Urban security, Globalisation processes, State making. 615 0$aInternational relations. 676 $a303.66 700 $aArmao$b Fabio$0147245 702 $aRandall-Schab$b Magdalena 702 $aLeverton$b Adam Tod 702 $aWittelsbach$b Kora E. Ba?ttig von 702 $aPisani$b Emilia Bianca 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996308766003316 996 $aInside War$92198843 997 $aUNISA