Useful enemies: when waging wars is more important than winning them

There are currently between twenty and thirty civil wars worldwide, while at a global level the Cold War has been succeeded by a null on drugs and a null on terror that continues to rage a decade after 9/11. Why is this, when we know how destructive war is in both human and economic terms? Why do the efforts of aid organizations and international diplomats founder so often? In this important book David Keen investigates why conflicts are so...