As political scientist Tarak Barkawi has argued, studying wars of decolonization demands a readiness to decolonize previously Eurocentric approaches to war. To do that, we need first to think about how the study of violent decolonization has evolved over the past generation or so. This brief essay offers a few answers. It focuses on three issues: the recognition of decolonization’s wars, the place of unarmed civilians in such conflicts, and the inter-connection between violent decolonization and civil war.

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宏大叙事：非殖民化及其战争

正如政治学家塔拉克·巴尔卡维 (Tarak Barkawi) 所言，研究非殖民化战争需要准备好将以前以欧洲为中心的战争方法非殖民化。为此，我们首先需要思考暴力非殖民化研究在过去一代左右的时间里是如何演变的。这篇简短的文章提供了一些答案。它关注三个问题：对非殖民化战争的认识、手无寸铁的平民在此类冲突中的地位，以及暴力非殖民化与内战之间的相互联系。