Changing Nature of Contemporary Violent Conflict Topic 2 2025/ 2026 Study Guide Key Concepts Exam Review Modern Warfare Security Challenges and Conflict Analysis

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What are the key features of classical 18th/19th Wars were started for territorial gains, directed against other states, with
century inter-state war? civilians often protected from violence.


What is the 'New Barbarism School'? A perspective that views contemporary conflicts as a regression into
primitive forms of warfare.




What does Francis Fukuyama suggest about the end He suggests it may signify the end of history and the universalization of
of the Cold War? Western liberal democracy.


List some conflicts that erupted in the 1990s. Somalia, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Bosnia, Croatia, Kosovo, Rwanda, Burundi,
Mozambique, Georgia, Aceh, East Timor, Cambodia, Burma, Palestine,
Ethiopia/Eritrea, Afghanistan, Algeria, Tajikistan, Dem. Rep. of Congo.


What is a key characteristic of post-Cold War They often defy traditional Clausewitzean understandings of war, blurring
conflicts? lines between war, crime, and politics.


What does Wolfgang Sofsky describe about 'new' He notes that they involve small-scale warfare without frontlines, where the
wars? distinction between war and peace is no longer valid.


What are Post-Colonial Conflicts (PCCs)? Conflicts that arise within states, often characterized by violence and a
collapse of order.




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