Useful Enemies: When Waging Wars Is More Important Than Winning Them
- ISBN-10
- 0300183712
- ISBN-13
- 9780300183719
- Series
- Useful Enemies
- Category
- Political Science
- Pages
- 304
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012-07-31
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Author
- David Keen
Description
Keen investigates why conflicts are so prevalent and so intractable, even when one side has much greater military resources. He asks who benefits from wars-- whether economically, politically, or psychologically-- and argues that in order to bring them successfully to an end we need to understand the complex vested interests on all sides.
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- 2019-05-02
- 496 pages
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- 2019-05-02
- 496 pages
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- 2019-05
- 512 pages
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