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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- The Contributors -- 1. Insurgency: A Framework for Analysis -- 2. The Irish Republican Army and Northern Ireland -- 3. People's War in Thailand -- 4. The Guatemalan Insurrection -- 5. Urban Terrorism in Uruguay: The Tupamaros -- 6. Iraq: The Kurdish Rebellion -- 7. Revolutionary War in Oman -- 8. Armed Struggle in Angola -- 9. Summary and Conclusions -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.

Maldistribution of land in agrarian societies is commonly thought to be an important precondition of mass political violence and revolution. Others argue that because of the difficulty of mobilizing rural populations for political protest, land maldistribution is irrelevant except as part of an inegalitarian distribution of income nationwide. These rival inequality hypotheses have significant implications with respect to the kinds of reforms likely to reduce the potential for insurgency in a society. They are tested using the most comprehensive cross-national compilation of data currently available on land inequality, landlessness, and income inequality. Support is found for the argument that attributes the greater causal import to income inequality. Moreover, the effect of income inequality on political violence is found to hold in the context of a causal model that takes into account the repressiveness of the regime, governmental acts of coercion, intensity of separatism, and level of economic development.

chapter 1. Conceptualizing counterterrorism / Olivier Lewis -- chapter 2. The socially constructed insurgency : using social movement theory as a framework for analyzing insurgencies / Shane Drennan -- chapter 3. The crime-terror-insurgency nexus : implications for global security / Daniela Irrera -- chapter 4. Ideological motivations of Arab foreign fighters as insurgents and terrorists: from 1980s Afghanistan to the Syrian insurgency / Roger P. Warren -- chapter 5. Al-Qaeda : through the lens of global insurgency / Michael F. Morris -- chapter 6. The threat of terrorism to critical infrastructure : TEN-R and the global Salafi Jihad / Colin Maclachlan -- chapter 7. The power to hurt indirectly : deterrence of violent nonstate organizations by threats of domestic-political costs / Oren Magen -- chapter 8. Latent insurgency : is the threat of militant Islamist groups in Indonesia diminishing? / Paul J. Carnegie -- chapter 9. Mali's rebels : making sense of the national movement for the liberation of Azawad insurgency / Stewart Tristan Webb -- chapter 10. Crossroads : tracing the historical roots of modern insurgency in the Caucasus / Chris Murray -- chapter 11. Lashkar-e-Taiba : regional insurgent group or emerging international threat? / Stewart Tristan Webb -- chapter 12. The Haqqani network threat : keeping insurgency in the family / Scott Nicholas Romaniuk and Stewart Tristan Webb -- chapter 13. Manchuria : the cockpit of insurgent empire : a historical perspective from the Khitan Liao to the People's Republic of China / Christopher Mott -- chapter 14. From David to Goliath : Chinese pacification and counterinsurgency operations in modern wars / Francis Grice -- chapter 15. The father-to-son war : Burma's Karen nationalist insurgency / Scott Nicholas Romaniuk -- chapter 16. An assessment of the United Nations counterterrorism initiatives : 2001-2015 / Emeka Thaddues Njoku -- chapter 17. Insurgencies, civil wars, and international support : reassessing evidence of moral hazard from the Balkans / Marinko Bobic.