TY  - BOOK
TI  - Modern insurgencies and counterinsurgencies: a global history
AU  - Roy, Kaushik
PY  - 2023
PB  - Routledge
LA  - eng
KW  - Insurgency
KW  - Counterinsurgency
KW  - Imperialism
KW  - HISTORY / Military / General
KW  - HISTORY / Modern / General
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Intelligence
KW  - History
AB  - "This book provides a historical study of theory and praxis of modern insurgencies and counterinsurgencies (COIN). Modern Insurgencies and Counterinsurgencies: A Global History shows that the insurgents can wage a variety of conflicts: at times conventional war which lies at the high end of their spectrum, and terrorism which is located at the lowest end of their scale. When insurgencies reach a certain critical threshold, the insurgents shift their strategy from guerrilla (irregular) war to conventional (regular) war, and at that point the level of conflict escalates to the level of civil war. When the insurgents face intense state repression, they revert to terrorist activities. When the insurgents wage guerrilla war, they can be called guerrillas. The variety of wars conducted by the insurgents is termed as unconventional war. This volume demonstrates that the insurgents in the modern world had been motivated by a trinity: greed, grievances and ideology. Kaushik Roy traces the origin of modern insurgencies and COIN from sixteenth century by focusing on regions outside Western Eurasia. He also touches on the twin interrelated phenomena of modern insurgencies and COIN metastasising into something new at the beginning of the Information Revolution at the end of the twentieth century. This volume will of interest to researchers and research students of history, British Empire, imperial studies, Asian studies, security studies, strategic studies, and war and conflict studies"--
UR  - https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003174455
SN  - 9781003174455
SN  - 1003174450
SN  - 9781000628746
SN  - 1000628744
SN  - 9781000628753
SN  - 1000628752
SN  - 9781032005041
SN  - 9781032005003
DO  - 10.4324/9781003174455
T2  - Warfare and history
UR  - https://www.pollux-fid.de/r/routledge-9781003174455
H1  - Pollux (Fachinformationsdienst Politikwissenschaft)
ER  -