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Andrew Thomson

Outsourced Empire

How Militias, Mercenaries, and Contractors Support US Statecraft

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There has been a shift in the way that we understand the forces behind imperialism. In this book, Andrew Thomson re-evaluates the history of US imperialism, from the Cold War to today, by looking at the influence of paramilitary actors.Thomson reveals how these agents are central to US imperialism - from the Guatemalan coup to the Bay of Pigs, from Syrian rebel factions to the Soviet-Afghan War, bringing these narratives together to reveal the evolution of paramilitary insurgencies across the globe. Militias, mercenaries, and private companies (PMCs) have formed a central part of the strategies designed to influence political and economic con… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-1-78680-263-7
  • EAN: 9781786802637
  • Produktnummer: 28132818
  • Verlag: Pluto Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
  • Seitenangabe: 256 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 628 KB
  • Auflage: 1. Auflage

Über den Autor


Andrew Thomson is a Lecturer at Queen's University Belfast and Research Fellow at the Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice. He is the author of Outsourced Empire (Pluto, 2018). He researches in the areas of pro-government militias and paramilitaries, dynamics of violence in civil wars, US foreign policy, the Colombian conflict and peace process, and US counterinsurgency and 'irregular' warfare.

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