Counterinsurgency comes home

Journal of Strategic Studies, vol. 46, pp. 741–748

Abstract

Two recent books suggest that the crisis of American democracy can be productively understood and addressed through concepts from security studies, namely ‘counterinsurgency’ and ‘civil war’. Yet doing so raises a host of ethical and practical problems which are only likely to make the crisis of American democracy worse.

Authors 1

1. Andrew Gawthorpe corresponding Aachen Institute for History, Universiteit Leiden

   Leiden University

   Affiliation as printed

   Institute for History, Universiteit Leiden, Leiden, The Netherlands