Isbn: 9780807845776 - from people's war to people's rule: insurgency, intervention, and the lessons of vietnam (6 Ergebnisse)

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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 456 pages. Timothy Lomperis persuasively argues the ironic point that the lessons of Ame rican involvement in Vietnam are not to be found in any analysis of the war by i tself. Rather, he proposes a comparison of the Vietnam experience with seven oth er cases of Western intervention in communist insurgencies during the Cold War e ra: China, Indochina, Greece, the Philippines, Malaya, Cambodia, and Laos. Lom peris maintains that popular insurgencies are manifestations of crises in politi cal legitimacy, which occur as a result of the societal stresses caused by moder nization. Therefore, he argues, any intervention in a 'people's war' will succee d or fail depending on how it affects this crisis. The unifying theme in the cas es Lomperis discusses is the power of land reform and electoral democracy to cem ent political legitimacy and therefore deflect revolutionary movements. Applying this theory to the ongoing Sendero Luminoso insurgency in Peru, Lomperis makes a qualified prediction of that conflict's outcome. He concludes that a global tr end toward democratization has produced a new era of 'people's rule.' Editorial Reviews From Library Journal In his third work on the Vietnam War (after The W ar Everyone Lost?And Won, LJ 1/84, and Reading the Wind, Duke Univ., 1986), Lomp eris, a former army intelligence officer in Vietnam and currently an instructor in political science at West Point, places the war within the broader context of Communist insurgency against Western-supported regimes throughout the Cold War. Lomperis examines and compares the Chinese liberation struggle; civil wars in G reece, Cambodia, and Laos; rebellion in the Philippines; and the carnage in Peru so that the sophisticated reader can see the similarities and differences among.…

Zustand: New. In English.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 456 pages. 9.50x6.25x1.25 inches. In Stock.