Clausewitz and African war
Subtitle: politics and strategy in Liberia and Somalia
By: Isabelle Duyvesteyn
Publisher: Frank Cass; Routledge
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Oxon; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
Subjects: Clausewitz, Carl von, -- 1780-1831; Politics and war -- Case studies; Liberia -- History -- Civil War, 1989- -- Causes; Somalia -- History -- 1960-1991; Somalia -- History -- 1991-
Genres: Case studies
Description: "This book shows that wars that have hitherto been mainly interpreted as driven by economic, resource, ethnic or clan interests (such as the conflicts in Liberia and Somalia in the early 1990s) do have an overriding political rationale, which revalidate Carl von Clausewitz's nineteenth-century understanding of war."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-176) and index