From civil war to proxy war: past history and current dilemmas

Alex Marshall

Small Wars and Insurgencies, 2016, vol. 27, issue 2, 183-195

Abstract: The use of surrogate or ‘proxy’ actors within the context of ‘irregular’ or guerrilla conflict within or between states constitutes a phenomenon spanning nearly the whole of recorded human military history. Yet it is a phenomenon that has also acquired urgent contemporary relevance in the light of the general evolution of conflict in Ukraine and the current Middle East. This introduction to a special issue on the theme investigates some potentially important new avenues to studying the phenomenon in the light of these trends.

Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1080/09592318.2015.1129172

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