National Security Fellow, Celeste Ward Gventer, Publishes Edited Volume “The New Counterinsurgency Era in Critical Perspective”

The volume, “The New Counterinsurgency Era in Critical Perspective,” which Gventer co-edited with M.L.R. Smith of King’s College London and David Martin Jones from the University of Queensland, Australia, examines the theory and intellectual history of counterinsurgency, the nature of the counterinsurgency experience in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the impact of contemporary engagement with COIN and its likely future consequences on policy making in both the U.S. and in allied capitals.  

The book emerged out of a workshop on June 7-9, 2012, sponsored by the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law and held at the Lyndon B. Johnson Library. The workshop assembled experts and scholars from many sides of the COIN debate to take a fresh look at this important and controversial subject.  On Foreign Policy’s Shadow Government blog, Gventer later posted some of the key points that emerged from the workshop: http://shadow.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/06/15/counterinsurgency_a_debate_far_from_over.

The essays in the book were written by scholars, civilian practitioners, and military officers, and offer a variety of fresh perspectives on a subject that rose to great prominence in American dialogues on Iraq, Afghanistan, and potential future wars.

The publisher’s site for the book can be found here:  http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=674384.