Deadly Paradigms : : The Failure of U.S. Counterinsurgency Policy / / D. Michael Shafer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
• VerfasserIn: Shafer, D. Michael,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]; ©1988
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 1032
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (348 p.)

Michael Shafer argues that American policymakers have fundamentally misperceived the political context of revolutionary wars directed against American clients and that because American attempts at counterinsurgency were based on faulty premises, these efforts have failed in virtually every instance.Originally published in 1988.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE AND READER'S GUIDE -- ABBREVIATIONS -- NOTATION FOR FOOTNOTES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY -- PART I -- 1. Introduction: Dogs That Didn't Bark -- 2. Possible Explanations: Sources of Policy Content and Continuity -- PART II -- 3. Flight, Fall, and Persistance: Political Development Theory -- 4. Security and Development -- 5. Mao Minus Marx: American Counterinsurgency Doctrine -- PART III -- 6. Not So Exceptionally American -- 7. Greece: The Trojan Horse -- 8. The Philippines: Magsaysay's Miracle -- 9. Vietnam: Reaping the Whirlwind -- PART IV -- 10. Conclusion: Facing the Future -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX