RUSI Journal Free Access Articles
06.30.2013 at 07:44pm
The RUSI Journal Volume 158, Issue 2, 2013
Transnational Organised Crime and Security by Dr Emma De Angelis
Transnational Organised Crime and International Security: A Primer by James Bergeron
Proxy Warfare and the Future of Conflict by Andrew Mumford
The Kosovo Liberation Army: Underground War to Balkan Insurgency, 1948-2011 by Frank Ledwidge
Thanks so much for posting this. The article on proxy wars is interesting and the topic highlights what I think is the weakness of a certain 90’s/00’s era focus on “non-state” actors and networks that, weirdly, didn’t do enough to highlight that it’s the state supported licit and illicit connections that are most interesting: air travel, internet, trade, “black” globalization, state leverage or countering of proxies. I always thought the whole 90’s peacekeeping/stability/popCOIN view of the international situation was a bit too “static” intellectually.
One other comment, the proxy article talks about the future but I think the concepts work well for 1990’s Afghanistan and American policy toward the region. Instead of the idea of abandonment–which set the stage for subsequent strategies by various administrations–a better lens might have been how prioritizing 90’s Asian geoeconomics as a basis of 90’s era South Asian policy blinded various Western systems to the basic dynamics of the region.
(Robert Kaplan talks about this a little bit in an article at Real Clear World). I’ll post a bunch of links when I get the chance.