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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Preface -- Notes on contributors -- Introduction -- Part I Institution, resources and development -- 1 Ethnicisation of space: development consequence and political response in Northeast India -- 2 Beyond ethnicity: development and reconciliation -- 3 Self-management and development institutions of Northeast India -- 4 Vicious circle of insurgency and underdevelopment in Northeast India -- 5 Politics of peace accords in Northeast India -- 6 Forest conservation and community land rights in Manipur -- Part II Ethnicity, identity and belonging -- 7 Identity, deprivation and demand for bifurcation of Meghalaya -- 8 Identity politics, conflict and development among the Mizos in Mizoram -- 9 Identity, conflict and development: a study of Borok community in Tripura -- 10 Oral narratives and identity discourse in Arunachal Pradesh -- 11 Identity, conflict and development in Nagaland -- 12 A nation's begotten child: Arunachal Pradesh in India's troubled Northeast -- 13 Democracy and ethnic politics in Sikkim -- 14 Ethnic assertion in Manipur: reflection on electoral integrity and governance

Since the 1950s, China and India have been locked in a monumental battle for geopolitical supremacy. Chinese interest in the ethnic insurgencies in northeastern India, the still unresolved issue of the McMahon Line, the border established by the British imperial government, and competition for strategic access to the Indian Ocean have given rise to tense gamesmanship, political intrigue, and rivalry between the two Asian giants. Former Far Eastern Economic Review correspondent Bertil Lintner has drawn from his extensive personal interviews with insurgency leaders and civilians in remote tribal areas in northeastern India, newly declassified intelligence reports, and his many years of firsthand experience in Asia to chronicle this ongoing struggle. His history of the "Great Game East" is the first significant account of a regional conflict which has led to open warfare on several occasions, most notably the Sino-India border war of 1962, and will have a major impact on global affairs in the decades ahead

Verlagsinfo: When NATO took charge of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) for Afghanistan in 2003, ISAF conceptualized its mission largely as a stabilization and reconstruction deployment. However, as the campaign has evolved and the insurgency has proved to more resistant and capable, key operational imperatives have emerged, including military support to the civilian development effort, closer partnering with Afghan security forces, and greater military restraint. All participating militaries have adapted, to varying extents, to these campaign imperatives and pressures. This book analyzes these initiatives and their outcomes by focusing on the experiences of three groups of militaries: those of Britain, Canada, Denmark, the Netherlands, and the US, which have faced the most intense operational and strategic pressures; Germany, who's troops have faced the greatest political and cultural constraints; and the Afghan National Army (ANA) and the Taliban, who have been forced to adapt to a very different sets of circumstances.

Introduction : the enduring relevance of classical thinkers / Stefano Recchia and Jennifer Welsh -- Intervention in European history, c. 1520-1850 / David Trim -- War in the face of doubt : early modern classics and the preventive use of force / Ariel Colonomos -- Vitoria : the law of war, saving the innocent, and the image of God / William Bain -- Grotius, Hobbes and Pufendorf on humanitarian intervention / Richard Tuck -- John Locke on intervention, uncertainty, and insurgency / Samuel Moyn -- Intervention and sovereign equality : legacies of Vattel / Jennifer Pitts -- David Hume and Adam Smith on international ethics and humanitarian intervention / Edwin Van de Haar -- Sovereignty, morality and history : the problematic legitimization of force in Rousseau, Kant and Hegel / Pierre Hassner -- Revisiting Kant and intervention / Andrew Hurrell -- Edmund Burke and intervention : empire and neighborhood / Jennifer Welsh -- The origins of liberal Wilsonianism : Giuseppe Mazzini on regime change and humanitarian intervention / Stefano Recchia -- J.S. Mill on non-intervention and intervention / Michael Doyle.

The Maoists in India delves deep into one of the most intractable but under-reported insurgencies in the developing world - the decades long battle between the Indian state and Maoist groups who control significant parts of tribal India. Nirmalangshu Mukherji explains the devastating impact on India's tribal population of neoliberalism and armed aggression by the State, as well as the impact of the armed struggle by the Maoists. Unlike most accounts, Mukherji takes an honest and unflinching look at each of the Maoists' interventions and critically examines the ideology and programme proposed by their theoreticians and prominent intellectual sympathisers. The Maoists in India goes beyond analysing the Maoist insurgency purely in terms of security considerations. It examines the idea of armed struggle in the context of a well-established parliamentary democracy and focusses on the Maoists' own political philosophy, looking critically at whether their strategy can help to deliver social justice and liberation for India's poor

With the world watching closely, Myanmar began a process of political, administrative and institutional transition from 30 January 2011. After convening the parliament, elected in November 2010, the former military regime transferred power to a new government headed by former Prime Minister (and retired general), U Thein Sein. With parliamentary processes restored in Myanmar's new capital of Naypyitaw, Thein Sein's government announced a wide-ranging reform agenda, and began releasing political prisoners and easing press censorship. Pivotal meetings between Thein Sein and Aung San Suu Kyi led to amendment of the Election Law and the National League for Democracy contesting by-elections in April 2012. The 2011 Myanmar/Burma update conference considered the openings offered by these political changes and media reforms and the potential opportunities for international assistance. Obstacles covered include impediments to the rule of law, the continuation of human rights abuses, the impunity of the Army, and the failure to end ethnic insurgency

"Counterterrorism in Turkey comprehensively analyses Turkey's counterterrorism policies in the context of the PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party), an ethnicity-based guerrilla insurgency group employing terrorism. Contrary to most of the counterterrorism studies that focused on single aspect of the phenomenon, this book offers multi-level analyses from a variety of perspectives using both quantitative and qualitative data sets. Examining what measures have been taken so far, and what these policies really mean to the PKK and its sympathisers, Ünal examines counterterrorism policies from both the perspective of the government and the PKK. The work evaluates whether policy choices so far have been effective (and in what circumstances) and how they have affected both levels of terrorist violence in Turkey and the nature of this violence. This work provides a valuable contribution to the literature on counterterrorism and will be of interest to both practitioners and scholars of terrorism studies, extremism and ethnic conflict."--Provided by publisher.

The British approach to counterinsurgency: "Hearts and minds" from Malaya to Afghanistan? / Paul Dixon -- Analysing British counterinsurgency -- Beyond hearts and minds? Perspectives on counterinsurgency / Paul Dixon -- Britain's Vietnam syndrome? Perspectives on British counterinsurgency, the media and public opinion / Paul Dixon -- Bringing it all back home? The militarisation of Britain and the Iraq and Afghanistan wars / Paul Dixon -- A feminist approach to British counterinsurgency / Claire Duncanson and Hilary Cornish -- Baha Mousa and the British Army in Iraq / Huw Bennett -- Case studies: Malaya to Afghanistan -- Using and abusing the past: the Malayan emergency as counterinsurgency paradigm / Karl Hack -- Dirty wars: counterinsurgency from Vietnam to Afghanistan / David Hunt -- "Hearts and minds"? British counterinsurgency strategy in Northern Ireland / Paul Dixon -- Counterinsurgency and human rights in Northern Ireland / Brice Dickson -- Counterinsurgency amid fragmentation: the British in southern Iraq / Glen Rangwala -- Countering the Afghan insurgency: three lessons learned / Sherard Cowper-Coles -- Conclusion: the military and British democracy / Paul Dixon

Klappentext: A decade after the US-led invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001, the country continues to face a growing insurgency and crises of governance. The Afghanistan Conflict and Australia's Role tackles a number of critical dimensions-politics, society, military, and reconstruction-of this conflict from a range of perspectives. This book unpacks the nature and complexity of the conflict at national and international levels. It makes a critical assessment of the performance of President Hamid Karzai and his government, and the efforts made by the international community, the US and its NATO and non-NATO allies in particular, to stabilise, rebuild and secure Afghanistan as a viable state. In addition, it examines critically the role played by Australia in the conflict. The conclusions are far-reaching, with relevance to anyone interested in the interconnectedness of many contemporary issues-governance, democratisation, development, the role of the media, and counterinsurgency.

This book investigates the use and utility of military force in modern war. After the Cold War, Western armed forces have increasingly been called upon to intervene in internal conflicts in the former Third World. These forces have been called upon to carry out missions that they traditionally have not been trained and equipped for, in environments that they often have not been prepared for. A number of these "new" types of operations in allegedly "new" wars stand out, such as peace enforcement, state-building, counter-insurgency, humanitarian aid, and not the least counter-terrorism. The success rate of these missions has, however, been mixed, providing fuel for an increasingly loud debate on the utility of force in modern war. This edited volume poses as its central question: what is in fact the utility of force? Is force useful for anything other than a complete conventional defeat of a regular opponent, who is confronted in the open field?

State Formation and Radical Democracy in India analyzes one of the most important cases of developmental change in the twentieth century, namely, Kerala in southern India and begs the question of whether insurgency among the marginalized poor can use formal representative democracy to create better life chances. Going back to pre-independence, colonial India, Manali Desai takes a long historical view of Kerala and compares it with the state of West Bengal, which like Kerala has been ruled by leftists but has not had the same degree of success in raising equal access to welfare, literacy, and basic subsistence. This comparison brings the role of left party formation and its mode of insertion in civil society to the fore, raising the question of what kinds of parties can effect the most substantive anti-poverty reforms within a vibrant democracy. This book offers a new, historically based explanation for Kerala's post-independence political and economic direction.

ASEAN has its admirers and its critics. In its third decade, it is faced with having to do more than promote the interests of some of the region's most dynamic econommies. It has to do more for its six members than just preserve the peace between them. In the 1990s the old leaders of ASEAN will all be gone. What their successors do to make ASEAN cooperation work will determine how many of them join Singapore as a newly industrialised country. The agenda for the 1990s has Indochina near the top, but as well, how to cope with the economic prowess of Japan and the growing military strength of China. ASEAN confronts the need for security both from external and internal threats. Population pressure, income redistribution, insurgency and the influence of Islam will affect all six countries in different ways. This book, a successor to the influential Understanding ASEAN, identifies the problems and predicts the responses

Abstract
Previous work in International Studies Quarterly shows higher levels of humanitarian aid prolong civil conflicts. It also finds, among conflict–years in which aid is received, that this conflict-prolonging effect is more acute in insurgency-based civil conflicts, albeit with weaker supporting evidence. However, I show this work accidentally generated its conflict duration variable incorrectly, with the duration measuring time since January 1, 1960, not time since civil conflict onset. The duration values also exclude the first at-risk day for the first observation in each conflict, which drops true one-day durations from the estimation sample. I rerun the original analysis with the corrected duration coding and find evidence that supports the opposite of the author's main hypothesis: higher levels of humanitarian aid either have no effect on or shorten civil conflict duration. Additionally, the weak evidence for the author's second hypothesis mostly disappears, depending on the conflict's duration.

The American and British administrations invaded Iraq in a forceful military operation, culminating in the occupation of the country on 10 April 2003. Two decades later, Iraq continues to grapple with the economic, social, security and environmental repercussions of three ensuing conflicts stemming from this occupation. This article provides a preliminary assessment of the environmental impacts arising from the occupation forces' use of excessive and indiscriminate firepower, the employment of tens of thousands of heavy tanks and artilleries and their traffic, over five hundred military bases and the 600 battles of the counter-insurgency war. The damaging effects of all of these destructive events on the semi-arid, fragile soil and ecosystem in Iraq have been profound. The contamination with radioactive, hazardous and toxic materials from explosives and war remnants, along with the collapse of the environmental protection system, have all resulted in serious degradation of quality-of-human-life parameters and the natural ecosystem.

The fate of captives designated as 'communist' prisoners during the Vietnam War has largely been overshadowed by that of US POWs detained north of the Seventeenth Parallel. This article, based on newly released archival sources in multiple languages, considers their classification and treatment in captivity. In particular, civilian captives and members of the National Liberation Front were often categorised as 'civil defendants' by South Vietnam and thus deprived of their rights as POWs, as codified in the Geneva Conventions. Yet, as representatives of a state dealing with both an insurgency and an invasion at the same time, South Vietnamese officials realised the significance of enemy captives. By illustrating the complex policies and practices of prisoner taking and incarceration, this article interprets and explains the gap between civilian and military law and informal and oftentimes self-serving practices on the ground. Thus, the Second Indochina War foreshadowed a global trend of excluding captured irregular combatants from the laws of war.