The long war : insurgency, counterinsurgency and collapsing states / Edited by Mark T. Berger and Douglas A. Borer.

This book was previously published as special issued of Third World Quarterly, volume28, numbers2 (2007).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. The Long War: insurgency, counterinsurgency and collapsing states / Mark T. Berger and Douglas A. Borer -- 2. Part 1. The Long War and the comparing and modelling of insurgency counterinsurgency and collapsing states: from 'Shock and Awe' to 'Hearts and Minds': the fall and rise of US counterinsurgency capability in Iraq / Kalev I. Sepp -- 3. From collapsing states to neo-trusteeship: the limits to solving the problem of 'precarious statehood' in the 21st century / Richard Callan -- 4. Engaging or withdrawing, winning or losing? The contradictions of counterinsurgency policy in Afghanistan and Iraq / Andrea M. Lopez -- 5. The battle for Iraq: Islamic insurgencies in comparative perspective / Glenn E. Robinson -- 6. Less is more: the problematic future of irregular warfare in an era of collapsing states / Hy S. Rothstein -- 7. Things come together: symbolic violence and guerrilla mobilisation / Gordon H. McCormick and Frank Giordano -- 8. Things fall apart: the endgame dynamics of internal wars / Gordon H. McCormick, Steven B. Horton and Lauren A. Harrison -- 9. Part 2. The Long War and the future of insurgency, counterinsurgency and collapsing states: the end of war as we knew it? Insurgency, counterinsurgency and lessons from the forgotten history of early terror networks / John Arquilla -- 10. The misleading problem of failed states: a 'socio-geography' of terrorism in the post-9/11 era / Anna Simona and David Tucker -- 11. Caudillos and the crisis of the Colombian state: fragmented sovereignty, the war system and the privatisation of counterinsurgency in Colombia / Nazih Richani -- 12. The insurgency of global empire and the counterinsurgency of local resistance: new world order in an era of civilian provisional authority / Timothy W. Luke -- 13. The last empire? From nation-building compulsion to nation-wrecking futility and beyond / Radhika Desai -- 14. All roads lead to and from Iraq: the Long War and the transformation of the nation-state system / Douglas A. Borer and mark T. Berger.