Routledge Handbook of Proxy Wars

<p>This Handbook is the first volume to comprehensively examine the challenges, intricacies, and dynamics of proxy wars, in their various facets.</p><p>The volume aims to capture the significantly growing interest in the topic at a critical juncture when wars of many guises are becoming multifaceted proxy wars. Most often, proxy wars have wide-ranging implications for international security and are, therefore, a critically important subject of inquiry. The Handbook seeks to understand and explain proxy wars conceptually, theoretically, and empirically, with a focus on the numerous policy challenges and dilemmas they pose. To do so, it presents a multi- and interdisciplinary assessment of proxy wars focused on the causes, dynamics, and processes underpinning the phenomenon, across time and space and a multitude of actors throughout human history. The Handbook is divided into six thematic sections, as follows: </p><p>Part I: Approaches to the Study of Proxy Wars </p><p>Part II: Historical Perspectives on Proxy Wars</p><p>Part III: Actors in Proxy Wars</p><p>Part IV: Dynamics of Proxy Wars</p><p>Part V: Case Studies of Proxy Wars</p><p>Part VI: The Future of Proxy Wars</p><p>By bringing together many leading scholars in a synthesis of expertise, this Handbook provides a unique and rigorous account of research into proxy war, which so far has been largely missing from the debate.</p><p>This book will be of much interest to students of strategic studies, security studies, foreign policy, political violence, and International Relations.</p> <p>1. The Study of Proxy Wars <b>PART I: APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF PROXY WARS</b> 2. Causal Logics of Proxy Wars 3. Quantitative Approaches to Proxy Wars 4. Formal Theory and Proxy Wars 5. State Sponsorship of Terrorism and Proxy Wars 6. Covert Action and Proxy Wars 7. International Law and Proxy Wars 8. Politics, Positionality, and Colonial Persistence in Proxy Wars <strong>PART II: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES ON PROXY WARS </strong>9. Proxy Wars in History: A Longue Durée Perspective 10. Proxy Wars in the Interwar Period: The Spanish Civil War 1. Proxy Wars and the Cold War: An East-West Perspective 12. The Historical Evolution of Proxy Wars: 1945-2022 <strong>PART III: ACTORS IN PROXY WARS </strong>13. Militias and Proxy Wars 14. Tribes and Proxy Wars 15. Organized Crime and Proxy Wars 16. Diasporas and Proxy Wars <strong>PART IV: DYNAMICS OF PROXY WARS </strong>17.<strong> </strong>Controlling Proxies: An Analytical Framework 18. Engaging Proxies: A U.S. Perspective 19. Arming Proxies: Ethical and Legal Dilemmas 20. Confronting Proxies 21. Proxy War Termination 22. Consequences of Proxy Wars <strong>PART V: CASE STUDIES OF PROXY WARS </strong>23.<strong> </strong>Proxy Wars in Africa 24. Proxy Wars in the Horn of Africa 25. Proxy Wars in the Middle East 26. Iran’s Proxy War Strategy 27. Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units 28. Proxy War Dynamics in Yemen 29. Proxy Wars in the Post-Soviet Space 30. Proxy Wars in South Asia 31. Proxy Wars in Latin America <strong>PART VI: THE FUTURE OF PROXY WARS </strong>32. Proxy Wars and Cyberspace 33. Proxy Wars and Strategic Competition 34. The Return of Great Power Proxy Wars?</p>