Overview
- Explores the theory and military practice of upstream stabilisation
- Presents a diverse range of important case studies from Somalia and Mali to Syria and Yemen
- Offers diverse perspectives from theory and practice from leading scholars in the UK and USA
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This book explores the natures of recent stabilisation efforts and global upstream threats. As prevention is always cheaper than the crisis of state collapse or civil war, the future character of conflict will increasingly involve upstream stabilisation operations. However, the unpredictability and variability of state instability requires governments and militaries to adopt a diversity of approach, conceptualisation and vocabulary. Offering perspectives from theory and practice, the chapters in this collection provide crucial insight into military roles and capabilities, opportunities, risks and limitations, doctrine, strategy and tactics, and measures of effect relevant to operations in upstream environments. This volume will appeal to researchers and practitioners seeking to understand historical and current conflict.
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Keywords
- military intervention
- military studies
- security studies
- army
- military strategy
- upstream stabilisation
- military theory
- historical conflict
- conflict in the Middle East
- Western intervention
- conflict studies
- stabilization strategy
- use of force
- intervention in yemen
- intervention in Iraq
- intervention in Africa
- crisis and intervention
- borderlands
- politics of security assistance
- International intervention
Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Reviews
“A timely and important examination of the changing nature, purposes and politics of conflict and intervention in the entirely new conditions which confront us in the world today.” (Lord Howell of Guildford, Chairman of the House of Lords International Relations Committee, UK)
“Conflict prevention is an uncertain business. It requires good timing, excellent understanding, and no small amount of good luck. Tim Clack and Rob Johnson’s volume gives us an excellent starting point for knowing the challenges we must address, where we must prepare, and what we must avoid. I recommend it for all those engaged in the theoretical and the practical side of this work.” (General Sir David Capewell, Former Commander of Joint Operations, UK)
“In an age of growing instability alongside a reluctance to engage in ‘post-conflict stabilization,’ it is wise to take an increasing interest in engaging ahead of conflict—this valuable book presents both practitioners and researchers with an excellent smorgasbord of insights.” (Major-General Andrew Sharpe CBE, Director, Centre for Historical Analysis and Conflict Research (CHACR), UK)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Timothy Clack is Fellow and Lecturer of St Peter’s College and Senior Research Fellow of the Changing Character of War Centre, University of Oxford, UK.
Robert Johnson is Director of the Changing Character of War Centre and Senior Research Fellow of Pembroke College, University of Oxford, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Before Military Intervention
Book Subtitle: Upstream Stabilisation in Theory and Practice
Editors: Timothy Clack, Robert Johnson
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98437-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG, part of Springer Nature 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-98436-0Published: 18 September 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07494-4Published: 28 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-98437-7Published: 04 September 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 213
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour
Topics: Military and Defence Studies, International Security Studies, Conflict Studies, History of Military