‘Proxy War’ - A Reconceptualisation

This article presents a definitional structure for the notion of ‘proxy war’ organised around three components: (1) material-constitutive feature, (2) processual feature and (3) relational feature. First, evaluates multiple usages term in light its contested character. Second, it proposes way making sense literature’s conceptual turmoil by analysing different attempts at defining notion. To this end, adds an important link to methodology concept analysis, namely ‘semantic field’, which re-introduces as heuristic identify ‘military intervention’ root proxy wars. The does so identifying type semantic relationship between intervention’, sub-type inclusion.