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India and Counterinsurgency
Author | : Sumit Ganguly |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 470 |
Release | : 2009-05-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1134008082 |
This edited volume focuses on India's experiences waging counterinsurgency campaigns since its independence in 1947. Filling a clear gap in the literature, the book traces and assess the origins, evolution and current state of India's counterinsurgency strategies and capabilities, focusing on key counterinsurgency campaigns waged by India within and outside its territory. It also analyzes the development of Indian doctrine on counterinsurgency, and locates this within the overall ebb and flow of India's defense and security policies. The central argument is that counterinsurgency has been an integral part of India's overall security policy and can thereby impart much to political and military leaders in other states. Since its emergence from British colonialism, India's defence policies have not merely sought to protect and preserve India's inherited colonial borders from threats by rival states, but have also sought to prevent and suppress secessionist movements. In countering insurgencies, the Indian state has fashioned strategies that seek to repress militarily any secessionist movement, while simultaneously forging a range of civilian administrative and institutional arrangements that attempt to address the grievances of disaffected populations. The book highlights key strategic and tactical innovations that the Indian Army and security forces made to deal with a range of insurgent movements. Simultaneously, it also examines how the civilian-military nexus enabled India's policy makers to utilize existing, and formulate novel, institutional means to address extant political grievances. India has been most successful where it has managed to use calibrated force, obtained the trust of much of the aggrieved population and made persuasive commitments to political and institutional reform. Examination of these elements of India's counterinsurgency performance can be compared to counterinsurgency doctrine developed by other countries, including the United States, and thus yield comparative policy prescriptions and recommendations that can be applied to other counterinsurgency contexts. This book will be of great interest to students of counterinsurgency and irregular warfare, Indian politics, Asian Security Studies and Strategic Studies in general.
Military Intervention and Secession in South Asia
Author | : Anne N. Dos Santos |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2007-10-30 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0275999505 |
From Chechnya in Russia to Kashmir in India to the Basque region in Spain, secessionist movements remain a serious threat to international security. Despite the importance of this issue, the causes that bring about external military intervention in a secessionist war have not, until now, been adequately addressed. In this book, Dos Santos identifies the conditions that make international military intervention in a secessionist war more or less likely. South Asia, being fraught with secessionist movements—Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Kashmir, and Punjab—provides an ideal laboratory for the examination of this compelling issue. Dos Santos argues that a shift in the balance of power between a secessionist group and its central government will lead to a preventive war on the secessionists by the central government. In turn, a preventive war of this nature may lead to an alliance between the secessionist group and an external power. The stronger the alliance, the greater the chances of an international military intervention. Understanding the conditions under which secessionist movements expand, become secessionist wars, and invite international military intervention on behalf of the secessionists has strong policy implications. It can go a long way toward guiding policymakers who may want to mitigate or avoid these conditions in their states. Dos Santos views both states and secessionist groups as primary actors, and she examines both the distribution of power among states and the balance of power between central government and groups within states.
The Human Rights Crisis in Kashmir
Author | : |
Publisher | : Human Rights Watch |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781564321046 |
Historical background 3. The scope of the conflict and the
The Crisis in Kashmir
Author | : Šumit Ganguly |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521655668 |
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Coercion and Governance
Author | : Muthiah Alagappa |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 626 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780804742276 |
This far-ranging volume offers both a broad overview of the role of the military in contemporary Asia and a close look at the state of civil-military relations in sixteen Asian countries. It discusses these relations in countries where the military continues to dominate the political realm as well as others where it is disengaging from politics.
Crime-Terror Nexus in South Asia
Author | : Ryan Clarke |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2011-04-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 113673970X |
This book examines the crime-terror nexus in South Asia, focusing in particular on the activities of non-state actors that operate out of Pakistan, and challenges the conventional wisdom that the Pakistan Taleban (TTP) and Al-Qaeda are Pakistan’s most serious security threats. Much research has focused on the policies of India and Pakistan towards Kashmir. But surprisingly little attention has been paid to several notable Pakistan-based non-state actors who are increasingly operating on their own, and who have the potential to greatly inhibit, if not derail, the peace process there. These groups blur the line between terrorism and organized crime with serious implications for policy in the region. India and Pakistan can engage in confidence-building measures, but if criminal actors such as Lashkar-i-Taiba (LeT) and D-Company cannot effectively be controlled, a lack of trust between both sides will remain. Although the role of regular military forces is not to be discounted, many of the non-state actors in Indian-Held Kashmir, such as LeT, are not confined by the same restraints as state forces, thus allowing them engage in more violent actions without fear of reprisal. In order for lawmakers, security personnel, and others to develop sound, comprehensive policies, these forces and their potential to undermine political initiatives must be fully appreciated. This book explores the dynamics of the relationship between Pakistan, D-Company, and LeT and how it affects strategic thought, decision-making, and security interests in the region and explains the triangular relationships between states, terrorist groups, and organized criminal syndicates in general, and in India and Pakistan in particular. This book will of much interest to students of South Asian politics, terrorism, organised crime, war and conflict studies, and Security Studies in general.
Dead Silence
Author | : |
Publisher | : Human Rights Watch |
Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Civil rights |
ISBN | : 9781564321305 |
V. CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS
Death Squads in Global Perspective
Author | : B. Campbell |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 377 |
Release | : 2002-10-17 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0230108148 |
Death squads have become an increasingly common feature of the modern world. In nearly all instances, their establishment is tolerated, encouraged, or undertaken by the state itself, which thereby risks its monopoly on the use of force, one of the fundamental characteristics of modern states. Why do such a variety of regimes, under very different circumstances, condone such activity? Death Squads in Global Perspective hopes to answer that question and explain not only their development, but also why they can be expected to proliferate in the early 21st century.
Assessing the Quality of Democracy
Author | : Larry Diamond |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2005-11-25 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780801882876 |
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