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Book Review: The Dragons and the Snakes: How the Rest Learned to Fight the West

| 2021

Review of The Dragons and the Snakes: How the Rest Learned to Fight the West by David Kilcullen, New York: Oxford University Press (2020)

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David Kilcullen, a professor at the University of New South Wales, contributes to the debate of  whether contemporary great-power resurgence constitutes a second bi-polar competition by assessing resurging state and non-state competitors and the challenges they pose to the United States–led world order. While the emerging security environment might not be a new Cold War, Kilcullen contends it may be more dangerous than in the past.

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Moir, Nathaniel L. "Book Review: The Dragons and the Snakes: How the Rest Learned to Fight the West." Terrorism and Political Violence, vol. 33. no. 2. (2021): 411–418 .

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