Framers, founders, and reformers: Three generations of proxy war research

IF 4 1区社会学 Q1 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Contemporary Security Policy Pub Date : 2020-07-28 DOI:10.1080/13523260.2020.1800240

Vladimir Rauta

引用次数: 19

Abstract

ABSTRACT The rapid expansion of the proxy war literature invites an examination of its advances and developments. This article’s aims are threefold. First, to assess proxy war literature with a view to understand how it has progressed knowledge. Second, to map the field’s effort to cumulate knowledge. Third, to think creatively about the future directions of this research agenda as it addresses a problem no longer at the periphery of contemporary security debates. This article proposes a novel categorization of the evolution of our thinking about proxy wars across three “generations”: founders, framers, and reformers. Following on from this, it provides an assessment of the literature’s assumptions in order to show what remains, or not, under-studied. In doing so, it makes a case for a historiography of the idea of “proxy war,” and one for embedding strategy in analyses of wars by proxy.

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制宪者、奠基者和改革者:三代代理人战争研究

代理人战争文学的迅速扩张要求对其进步和发展进行审查。本文的目的有三个。首先，评估代理人战争文学，以了解它是如何发展知识的。第二，绘制该领域积累知识的努力。第三，创造性地思考这一研究议程的未来方向，因为它解决了一个不再处于当代安全辩论边缘的问题。本文提出了一种新的分类方法，将我们对代理战争的思考演变分为三个“世代”:开国元勋、制立者和改革者。在此基础上，它提供了对文献假设的评估，以显示哪些仍未得到充分研究。在这样做的过程中，它为“代理战争”这一概念的历史编纂提供了一个案例，并为在代理战争的分析中嵌入战略提供了一个案例。

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Contemporary Security Policy Multiple-

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14.60

自引率

6.80%

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期刊介绍： One of the oldest peer-reviewed journals in international conflict and security, Contemporary Security Policy promotes theoretically-based research on policy problems of armed conflict, intervention and conflict resolution. Since it first appeared in 1980, CSP has established its unique place as a meeting ground for research at the nexus of theory and policy. Spanning the gap between academic and policy approaches, CSP offers policy analysts a place to pursue fundamental issues, and academic writers a venue for addressing policy. Major fields of concern include: War and armed conflict Peacekeeping Conflict resolution Arms control and disarmament Defense policy Strategic culture International institutions. CSP is committed to a broad range of intellectual perspectives. Articles promote new analytical approaches, iconoclastic interpretations and previously overlooked perspectives. Its pages encourage novel contributions and outlooks, not particular methodologies or policy goals. Its geographical scope is worldwide and includes security challenges in Europe, Africa, the Middle-East and Asia. Authors are encouraged to examine established priorities in innovative ways and to apply traditional methods to new problems.