Nonstate warfare : the military methods of guerillas, warlords, and militias / Stephen Biddle. Stephen Biddle.

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BIDDLE Stephen D [author]

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TextPublication details: Princeton: Princeton Univ Press, 2021Description: xix, 436 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cmISBN:

9780691207513 (hbk.)

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355.0218 BID

Summary: His theory emphasizes how actors' internal politics - especially their institutional maturity and war aims - determine their military choices. In doing so, Biddle bridges to largely opposing groups of scholarship: materialists who assume that material and structural constraints will lead nonstates to prefer irregular warfare, and culturalists who see nonstate warmaking as connected to social norms.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

His theory emphasizes how actors' internal politics - especially their institutional maturity and war aims - determine their military choices. In doing so, Biddle bridges to largely opposing groups of scholarship: materialists who assume that material and structural constraints will lead nonstates to prefer irregular warfare, and culturalists who see nonstate warmaking as connected to social norms.

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