The conflict between Ecuador and Peru: rethinking the concept of old wars from the global south
This article focuses on the 1995 conflict between Ecuador and Peru. The objective is to show that this conflict, despite having occurred in a specific temporal context of the emergence of internal conflicts or new wars, contains a deep set of characteristics that favour the classical analysis of con...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2018 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG) |
| Repositorio: | Revista de Ciências do Estado (Online) |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:periodicos.ufmg.br:article/5120 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/revice/article/view/e5120 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Ecuador Classic wars Peru New wars Guerras clássicas Equador Novas guerras Guerras clásicas Nuevas guerras Perú |
| Sumario: | This article focuses on the 1995 conflict between Ecuador and Peru. The objective is to show that this conflict, despite having occurred in a specific temporal context of the emergence of internal conflicts or new wars, contains a deep set of characteristics that favour the classical analysis of conflicts. As a theoretical reference, we use the understanding of war through the thought of Clausewitz, for whom war constitutes an act of force that aims to oblige the enemy to do our will. To this classical conception we add Mary Kaldor's distinction between "new" and "old wars", as well as Herfried Munkler's vision. The methodology uses a qualitative approach based on the analysis of primary and secondary sources. The conclusion is that the military confrontation between Ecuador and Peru possesses characteristics typical of classic Clausewitzian conflicts and that the concept of old wars is not an anachronism when considering post-Cold War war processes from the Global South. |
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