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Geert-jan Alexander Knoops - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • The Transposition of Superior Responsibility onto Guerrilla Warfare under the Laws of the International Criminal Tribunals
    International Criminal Law Review, 2007
    Co-Authors: Geert-jan Alexander Knoops
    Abstract:

    This article deals with the question whether and how to assess superior responsibility within irregular (Guerrilla) Warfare; based on the principles developed by the international criminal tribunals on the area of superior responsibility for regular forces. In particular the article examines whether those criteria are useful to apply to Guerrilla Warfare. Specific problems, typical for Guerrilla Warfare, are analyzed such as the organizational level, the exercise of effective command and control, the assessment of the mens rea criterion within a complex situation of Guerrilla Warfare. Additionally, the material ability to prevent or punish crimes within Guerrilla forces seems a point of concern in view of the absence of proper disciplinary systems within this type of Warfare. Recent case law of the ICTY is taken into account in order to arrive at an answer to the main research question.

Viper Jacob - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Gerillakrigföring till sjöss : En teoriprövande tvåfallstudie om underlägsnas framgång
    Försvarshögskolan, 2018
    Co-Authors: Viper Jacob
    Abstract:

    When explaining the course of action of inferior actors in asymmetric conflicts, Guerrilla Warfare is normative. But when illustrated, the examples are only of battles and wars fought on land. Consequently, there seems to be an insufficient amount of studies that show whether Guerrilla Warfare truly is a theory for maritime forces. The purpose of this study is to test if Guerrilla Warfare can explain the procedure of inferior, but successful, maritime forces in asymmetric conflicts. To extract the principles of Guerrilla tactics, the controversial thoughts of Tse-tung, Giap and Guevara has been examined. The cases of this study are the Israeli maritime forces in the Yom Kippur war, and the Sea Tigers in the civil war of Sri Lanka. The results show that Guerrilla Warfare, despite similarities, cannot fully explain the tactical procedures of the Israelis. However, Guerrilla Warfare can, despite one difference, explain the tactical procedures of the Sea Tigers. This essay therefore argues that Guerrilla Warfare can be of use for maritime forces in the search of victory despite inferiority.

Jacob Viper - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

Li Chen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Guerrilla Warfare, flagship project: The spatial politics of Chinese rock in Shenzhen’s post-political making of a musical city
    Geoforum, 2019
    Co-Authors: June Wang, Li Chen
    Abstract:

    Abstract Chinese rock, premised on an identity of dissenters, has always been underground symbolically and literally, in a pattern of spatial fluidity in the city. The introduction of live house might offer a solid material base for political subjectivation of the community. This spatial action of subjectivation in forms of “Guerrilla Warfare”, encounters the growing passion for cultural city making by Municipal Governments. Through the study on transformation of rock space in Shenzhen, we aim to reflect on scholarship on post-political forms of urban governance in China. By probing into the antagonistic actions of the police and the political, we call for attention to territorial strategies used by both sides to consolidate the existing order and to assert a new order respectively. The double side of partition revealed by Rancirian conception of politics of aesthetics allows the governing side to pick and co-opt particular producers and live houses while collapse and/or policing others to re-consolidate spatial orders. Guided by expert-formed consensus, citizen entitlement and citizen participation programmes convert cities to be propaganda sites where state-sanctioned aesthetics is delivered to and experienced by subject-citizens.

  • Guerrilla Warfare flagship project the spatial politics of chinese rock in shenzhen s post political making of a musical city
    Geoforum, 2017
    Co-Authors: June Wang, Li Chen
    Abstract:

    Abstract Chinese rock, premised on an identity of dissenters, has always been underground symbolically and literally, in a pattern of spatial fluidity in the city. The introduction of live house might offer a solid material base for political subjectivation of the community. This spatial action of subjectivation in forms of “Guerrilla Warfare”, encounters the growing passion for cultural city making by Municipal Governments. Through the study on transformation of rock space in Shenzhen, we aim to reflect on scholarship on post-political forms of urban governance in China. By probing into the antagonistic actions of the police and the political, we call for attention to territorial strategies used by both sides to consolidate the existing order and to assert a new order respectively. The double side of partition revealed by Rancirian conception of politics of aesthetics allows the governing side to pick and co-opt particular producers and live houses while collapse and/or policing others to re-consolidate spatial orders. Guided by expert-formed consensus, citizen entitlement and citizen participation programmes convert cities to be propaganda sites where state-sanctioned aesthetics is delivered to and experienced by subject-citizens.

Sebastian Kaempf - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Violence and Victory: Guerrilla Warfare, ‘authentic self-affirmation’ and the overthrow of the colonial state
    Third World Quarterly, 2009
    Co-Authors: Sebastian Kaempf
    Abstract:

    This contribution critically investigates the ideas underpinning the armed struggle of colonial subjects against colonial states in the middle decades of the 20th century. It focuses in particular on two of the most influential texts that inspired and guided violent anti-colonial resistance, The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon and On Guerrilla Warfare by Mao Zedong. Both Fanon and Mao provided powerful analyses of the violent (psychological and military) underpinnings of colonialism and articulated strategies of resistance. This contribution argues that the persuasiveness of Mao's and Fanon's thought stemmed from their deep dialectical (ie Hegelian) understanding of war and colonialism. By demonstrating the dialectical foundations of Mao's and Fanon's thought—inspired intellectually by their readings of Carl von Clausewitz and Jean-Paul Sartre—the contribution illustrates how their understanding allowed them not only to fathom the interactive dynamics at the core of war and colonialism, but also to devise successful ways of unseating colonial power. Yet, while they shared a common belief in violent anti-colonial struggles, they nevertheless diverged fundamentally in their respective conceptions of violence. Mao (through Clausewitz) held an instrumental view of violence, whereas Fanon (through Sartre) understood violence in existential terms. This meant, as is argued here, that their respective conceptions of violence would not necessarily, on their own, have been sufficient to bring colonialism to an end. Taken together, however, their instrumental and intrinsic conceptions of violence complemented each other and helped armed anti-colonial struggles succeed around the globe.