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Isabelle Duyvesteyn
Clausewitz and African War [EPUB ebook]
Politics and Strategy in Liberia and Somalia

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This book shows that wars that have hitherto been mainly interpreted as driven by economic, resource, ethnic or clan interests (such as the conflicts in Liberia and Somalia in the early 1990s) do have an overriding political rationale, which revalidates Carl von Clausewitz’s nineteenth-century understanding of war.

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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 200 ● ISBN 9781135764838 ● Publisher Taylor and Francis ● Published 2004 ● Downloadable 3 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 5299091 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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