Distant thunder
Subtitle: patterns of conflict in the developing world
By: by Donald M. Snow.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Armonk, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
Subjects: Political violence -- Developing countries; Insurgency -- Developing countries; Terrorism -- Developing countries; Developing countries -- Foreign relations
Description: Although no longer the site of surrogate competition between rival political-economic systems, the "Third World" is the main focus of instability in the post-Cold War world. Wars of secession, bloody ethnic conflicts, chaotic violence in failing states, domestic and international terrorism, essentially criminal insurgencies with no political objective - all are flourishing wherever "world peace" has left a vacuum.

In Distant Thunder, Donald M. Snow traces the dynamics of disorder in the new international environment and the ways in which U.S. policy will need to adapt to new realities.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-226) and index.