Terrorism - General & Miscellaneous, Insurgency & Counterinsurgency, General & Miscellaneous - Politics & Government, Development, Diplomatic Relations - General & Miscellaneous
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Overview
Although no longer the site of surrogate competition between rival political-economic systems, the "Third World" is the main focus of instability in the post-Cold War world. Wars of secession, bloody ethnic conflicts, chaotic violence in failing states, domestic and international terrorism, essentially criminal insurgencies with no political objective - all are flourishing wherever "world peace" has left a vacuum. In Distant Thunder, Donald M. Snow traces the dynamics of disorder in the new international environment and the ways in which U.S. policy will need to adapt to new realities.Editorials
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Since the first edition (St. Martin's Press, 1993), Third World nations<-->redesignated here as the Second Tier<-->have continued to take increasingly central roles in the evolving new world order. Snow (visiting professor, US Army War College, 1989-91) analyzes the yeasty post-Cold War era in which this Second Tier emerged sans an East-West overlay of violence for the first time. With shifted centers of political gravity and economic instability, he deems the intractable nemesis to be counterinsurgency. Peru's "Sendero Luminoso" (Shining Path) is a case in point of new internal conflicts that represent either distant thunder or a siren's call that the US cannot ignore in shaping its foreign policy. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.Book Details
Published
August 31, 1997
Publisher
M.E. Sharpe
Pages
240
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9781563249846