Partisan and Anti-Partisan Warfare in the 20th Century - Detailseite

Between colonial wars and current "(counter-) insurgencies", the global phenomenon of partisan warfare in the 20th century - from Belarus to Vietnam - will be considered as a product of European political modernity and total war. Neither a simple continuation of "archaic" forms of war in "barbaric" or "pre-modern" societies, nor the great novelty that many contemporaries saw in the "people's wars", it appears as one of the major sites of the restructuration of imperial spaces and of a global renegotiation of political orders in a context of imperial collapse, rapid social change and diffusion of European political discourses and military technique. We will examine how the circulation of people, weapons and ideas, strongly fed by the competition between imperial powers, turned partisan warfare from a limited, Western, mostly symbolic phenomenon, to a global strategy. Particular attention will be devoted to the realities of those "small wars" in local contexts, in the war-torn imperial peripheries, to the experiences of combatants and non-combatants alike, and the ways in which those experiences have shaped the contemporary social and political order.

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