Policing insurgencies : cops as counterinsurgents /

This volume explores a relatively under-researched issue: the role of domestic police forces in contending with insurgency. The cases are drawn from Central, South, and Southeast Asia, as well as Africa and the Middle East. Each country-specific chapter is written by a well-established scholar who h...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: UPSO eCollections (University Press Scholarship Online)
Other Authors: Fair, C. Christine (Editor), Ganguly, Sumit (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Delhi, India : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Oxford international relations in South Asia series.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • When the police are the problem : the Philippine constabulary and the Hukbalahap Rebellion / Walter C. Ladwig III
  • The police must be part of the people and the people part of the police : policing in the Malayan emergency, 1948-60 / Kumar Ramakrishna
  • Policing in Kenya during the Mau Mau emergency, 1952-60 / Huw Bennett and Andrew Mumford
  • The role of the Royal Ulster Constabulary in Northern Ireland / Mark Cochrane
  • Problems and potential : the role of the police in the Colombian Insurgency / Jennifer Morrison Taw
  • Policy capacity and insurgency in Pakistan / Adnan Naseemullah
  • The police in Afghanistan, 2002-11 /Austin Long
  • The role of police in counterinsurgency operations in Iraq, 2003-6 / Matt Sherman and Josh Paul
  • The Punjab police and counterinsurgency against Sikh militants in India : the successful convergence of interests, identities, and institutions / Jugdep S. Chima
  • The police and India's Maoist insurgency / Arvind Verma
  • Police in counterinsurgency : the challenge of comprehensive reformation / David P. Fidler.