This Handbook is the first volume to comprehensively examine the challenges, intricacies, and dynamics of proxy wars, in their various facets.

1. The Study of Proxy Wars PART I: APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF PROXY WARS 2. Causal Logics of Proxy Wars 3. Quantitative Approaches to Proxy Wars 4. Formal Theory and Proxy Wars 5. State Sponsorship of Terrorism and Proxy Wars 6. Covert Action and Proxy Wars 7. International Law and Proxy Wars 8. Politics, Positionality, and Colonial Persistence in Proxy Wars PART II: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES ON PROXY WARS 9. Proxy Wars in History: A Longue Durée Perspective 10. Proxy Wars in the Interwar Period: The Spanish Civil War 1. Proxy Wars and the Cold War: An East-West Perspective 12. The Historical Evolution of Proxy Wars: 1945-2022 PART III: ACTORS IN PROXY WARS 13. Militias and Proxy Wars 14. Tribes and Proxy Wars 15. Organized Crime and Proxy Wars 16. Diasporas and Proxy Wars PART IV: DYNAMICS OF PROXY WARS 17. Controlling Proxies: An Analytical Framework 18. Engaging Proxies: A U.S. Perspective 19. Arming Proxies: Ethical and Legal Dilemmas 20. Confronting Proxies 21. Proxy War Termination 22. Consequences of Proxy Wars PART V: CASE STUDIES OF PROXY WARS 23. Proxy Wars in Africa 24. Proxy Wars in the Horn of Africa 25. Proxy Wars in the Middle East 26. Iran's Proxy War Strategy 27. Iraq's Popular Mobilization Units 28. Proxy War Dynamics in Yemen 29. Proxy Wars in the Post-Soviet Space 30. Proxy Wars in South Asia 31. Proxy Wars in Latin America PART VI: THE FUTURE OF PROXY WARS 32. Proxy Wars and Cyberspace 33. Proxy Wars and Strategic Competition 34. The Return of Great Power Proxy Wars?