title: Strategic control and revolution : the ontology of people's war and politics of partisanship
abstract: This paper explores how dialectical materialist theorists challenge the contemporary understanding of war in Western military sciences. These theorists perceive conflict as a fluid phenomenon interconnected with crucial elements such as politics and economics. The origins of Shiite Islamist revolutionary warfare will be compared with the characteristics of Western political orders, which are often regarded as the pinnacle of modern political development. Western democracies are based on an organ
journal: Doria (University of Helsinki)