Hot Spot: Latin AmericaBloomsbury Academic, 28. feb. 2008 - 288 síður From border crime in Mexico to Chavez's revolution in Venezuela, this volume presents up-to-the-minute coverage of the key conflicts, corruption, and revolutionary movements simmering or raging in every region of Latin America. In-depth, comprehensive chapters explore drug wars, immigration issues, terrorism, youth gangs, government corruption, controversy over oil, and political instability, including: The Zapatista Rebellion, the Darien Gap controversy, Evo Morales, Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso) and Tupac Amaru, the Falklands, and Guantanamo Bay. |
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... warfare- a sophisticated national army with the lethal invisibility of a guerrilla army - is forcing the U.S. military to reassess how to respond to hybrid insurgencies that are difficult to track and target . In what some call " net ...
... warfare - counterinsurgency - that , in the name of national security and the survival of Western and Christian civilizations , restruc- tured state and society in fundamental ways ; the logic of war focused on enemies of the state and ...
... warfare , " Shanker calls Hezbollah a new kind of threat : " Hezbollah still pos- sesses the most dangerous aspects of a shadowy terror network . It abides by no laws of war as it attacks civilians indiscriminately . Attacks on its ...
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The Meaning of Hot Spot Terminology | 1 |
Mexico | 55 |
Central America | 81 |
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