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>