dc.contributor.author
Sieg, Hans Martin
dc.date.accessioned
2018-06-08T04:13:47Z
dc.date.available
2015-08-20T09:17:55.253Z
dc.identifier.uri
https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/16855
dc.identifier.uri
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/refubium-21036
dc.description.abstract
As captured by neorealist theory, military power became increasingly relative
through into the twentieth century, leading to a concentration of power within
and between states—and enabling the buildup of huge colonial empires hardly a
century ago. Yet since 1945, due to the overproportional effectivity gained by
weaker and in particular nonstate actors it has become less relative, leading
to a dispersion of power—resulting in an often violent decolonization, the
problems US and North Atlantic Treaty Organization forces have faced in Iraq
and Afghanistan in dealing with comparatively small insurgencies and a growing
number of failing states. Military power has a selective function: the more
relative it is, the more it restricts patterns of conflict as well as the
number and nature of actors relevant to international and domestic security.
Today, it is because military power is becoming less relative that security
policy has to adapt to increasingly asymmetric challenges.
en
dc.rights.uri
http://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/the-green-route-%E2%80%93-open-access-archiving-policy
dc.subject
transformation of warfare
dc.subject
military power
dc.subject
asymmetric conflicts
dc.subject
international security
dc.subject.ddc
300 Sozialwissenschaften::320 Politikwissenschaft
dc.title
How the Transformation of Military Power Leads to Increasing Asymmetries in
Warfare? From the Battle of Omdurman to the Iraq Insurgency
dc.type
Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
dcterms.bibliographicCitation
Armed Forces & Society. - 40 (2014), 2, S. 332-335
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.doi
10.1177/0095327X12466228
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.url
http://afs.sagepub.com/content/40/2/332.abstract
refubium.affiliation
Politik- und Sozialwissenschaften
de
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FUDOCS_document_000000022941
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no
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FUDOCS_derivate_000000005289
dcterms.accessRights.openaire
open access