Modern Geopolitics and Security: Strategies for Unwinnable Conflicts

by Amos N. Guiora

Overview

The transformation from traditional war between nation-states to conflict between nation-states and nonstate actors requires decision makers, policy analysts, military commanders, intelligence officials, and legislators to answer the question: is there a strategy for an unwinnable conflict? This book draws on the author's extensive experience in counterterrorism, negotiation, and the implementation of the Oslo Peace Process, with his more recent work in academia. The book uses an interdisciplinary case study model to illustrate valuable lessons learned and best practices in strategic analysis and decision making in geopolitics. It examines international relations, international law, and negotiation/intervention as they pertain to recent and historical examples of global crises and security.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781466569232
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/20/2013
Pages:	184
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Amos Guiora is Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Center for Global Justice at the S. J. Quinney College of Law, the University of Utah. Guiora who teaches Criminal Procedure, International Law, Global Perspectives on Counterterrorism, and Religion and Terrorism incorporates innovative scenario-based instruction to address national and international security issues and dilemmas. Guiora is a Member of the American Bar Association’s Law and National Security Advisory Committee; a Research Associate at the University of Oxford, Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict; a Research Fellow at the International Institute on Counter-Terrorism, The Interdisciplinary Center, Herzylia, Israel; and a Corresponding Member, The Netherlands School of Human Rights Research, University of Utrecht School of Law. Professor Guiora has published extensively both in the United States and Europe on issues related to national security, limits of interrogation, religion, and terrorism, and the limits of power, multiculturalism, and human rights. He is the author of Legitimate Target A Criteria Based Approach to Targeted Killing; Freedom from Religion: Rights and National Security (first and second editions); Global Perspectives on Counterterrorism (first and second editions); Fundamentals of Counterterrorism; Constitutional Limits on Coercive Interrogation; Homeland Security: What is it and Where is it Going; Tolerating Intolerance: The Price of Protecting Extremism (2013), and Geopolitics and Security: Sovereignty, Intervention and the Law (2013).

Professor Guiora has received grants from both the Stuart Family Foundation and the Earhart Foundation and was awarded a Senior Specialist Fulbright Fellowship for The Netherlands in 2008. He served for 19 years in the Israel Defense Forces as Lieutenant Colonel (retired), and held a number of senior command positions, including Commander of the IDF School of Military Law and Legal Advisor to the Gaza Strip. Professor Guiora has testified before the US Senate Judicary Committee, the US House of Representatives Committee on Homeland Security, and the Committee on Foreign Affairs in the Dutch House of Representatives. Professor Guiora was awarded the S.J. Quinney College of Law Faculty Scholarship Award, 2011.

Table of Contents

Background and Definitions. International Security and Diplomacy. Self-Defense, Humanitarian Intervention, Leadership, and International Cooperation. Negotiating Agreements: Security and Understanding the "Other". Sovereignty. Containment, Use of Force, and Failed States. Moving Forward: The New World.

Editorial Reviews

"Beginning with a discussion of new developments affecting sovereignty, intervention, geopolitics, and security in the evolving global environment, the author … examines how states have attempted to address them in significant historical cases: the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the intervention in Libya, non-intervention in Syria …the conflict in the former Yugoslavia, the Arab Spring. An innovative and important examination of the strategies required by states to defeat the threats presented by non-state actors, such as terrorist groups."
—Joshua Sinai, Perspectives on Terrorism

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