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The New Wars by Herfried Munkler. Oxford, Polity Press, 2005. 224 pp. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $27.95.
After a half millennium in which the European great powers accounted for most of the world's wars, including the most destructive wars, we have witnessed a gradual shift in warfare away from the great powers, away from Europe, and, increasingly, away from states. The landscape is now dominated by civil wars and insurgencies, ethnic and religious wars, terrorism, and armed violence by warlords and other paramilitary actors for their own parochial ends. Clausewitz's classic formulation of war as fought by state armies under...
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