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February 2019, Volume 30, Issue 2
- 367-391 The Zimbabwe people’s revolutionary army military operations in Makonde District and the attack on Salisbury’s fuel storage tanks, 1965-1979
by Takawira Chatambudza & Mediel Hove - 392-420 How do sources of traditional legitimacy constrain popular uprisings? The case of the Kingdom of Swaziland
by Fenja Søndergaard Møller - 421-446 The revisionist historiography of Britain’s decolonisation conflicts and political science theses of civilian victimisation in counterinsurgency
by Fausto Scarinzi - 447-478 Colonial violence and its ‘Small Wars’: fighting the Kuki ‘guerillas’ during the Great War in Northeast India, 1917–1919
by Jangkhomang Guite - 479-481 Political violence in ancient India
by Rose Mary Sheldon - 479-486 Political violence in ancient India
by Rose Mary Sheldon - 482-484 Russian hybrid warfare: resurgence and politicisation
by Scott Jasper - 484-486 Man or Monster? The Trial of a Khmer Rouge Torturer
by Mark McLay - 487-488 Notes on Contributors
by The Editors
January 2019, Volume 30, Issue 1
- 1-13 Perspectives on the American way of war: the U.S. experience in irregular conflict
by Thomas A. Marks & Kirklin J. Bateman - 14-30 The Mexican War: frontier expansion and selective incursion
by Craig A. Deare - 31-61 Birth of the Cold War: irregular warfare first blood in Greece
by Andrew Novo - 62-80 Organizing for the ‘gray zone’ fight: early Cold War realities and the CIA’s Directorate of Operations
by David P. Oakley - 81-100 Counterinsurgency in Vietnam – schizophrenia until too late
by Rufus Phillips - 101-139 Turning gangsters into allies: the American way of war in Northern Afghanistan
by Matthew P. Dearing - 140-175 Iraq, 2003–2011: succeeding to fail
by Jeanne Godfroy & Liam Collins - 176-199 The American way of war in Africa: the case of Niger
by LTC Joseph Guido - 200-222 Too little, too late: protecting American soft networks in COIN/CT
by Steve Miska & Samuel Romano - 223-254 Systems failure: the US way of irregular warfare
by David H. Ucko - 255-262 The last great historian: Walter Laqueur and political violence
by Christopher Wall - 263-264 Notes on Contributors
by The Editors
November 2018, Volume 29, Issue 5-6
- 839-862 The multidimensional nature of the Boko Haram conflict
by James J. Hentz - 863-885 ‘The only good jihadist is a dead jihadist’:Boko Haram and de-radicalization around Lake Chad
by Marc-Antoine Pérouse de Montclos - 886-915 Boko Haram’s increasingly sophisticated military threat
by Akali Omeni - 916-940 End of the cycle: assessing ETA’s strategies of terrorism
by Charles W. Mahoney - 941-963 Cyber sheiks and grassroots jihadis: the war in Syria and the devolution of the Bosnian Salafi communities
by Aleksander Zdravkovski - 964-980 Expeditionary police advising: some causes of failure
by Donald Stoker & Edward B. Westermann - 981-1005 The effect of foreign state support to UNITA during the Angolan War (1975–1991)
by Quint Hoekstra - 1006-1039 The myth of Afghan electoral democracy: the irregularities of the 2014 presidential election
by Thomas H. Johnson - 1040-1064 Explaining the impact of militancy on Iran–Pakistan relations
by Saira Basit - 1065-1078 Are Mao Zedong and Maoist thought irrelevant in the understanding of insurgencies?
by Paul B Rich - 1079-1080 Notes on contributors
by The Editors
July 2018, Volume 29, Issue 4
- 607-628 The social structure of armed groups. Reproduction and change during and after conflict
by Daniel Bultmann - 629-653 The FARC’s militaristic blueprint
by Francisco Gutiérrez-Sanín - 654-679 Unity is the exception. Alliance formation and de-formation among armed actors in Northern Mali
by Nicolas Desgrais & Yvan Guichaoua & Andrew Lebovich - 680-708 Bourdieu’s capital and insurgent group resilience:a field-theoretic approach to the polisario front
by Claire M. Metelits - 709-734 Forces of heresy versus forces of conservation: making sense of Hezb-e Islami-ye Afghanistan’s and the Taleban’s positions in the Afghan insurgency
by Philipp Münch - 735-753 The structural origins of social cohesion: the dynamics of micro-solidarity in 1991–1995 Wars of Yugoslav Succession
by Siniša Malešević - 754-775 Network structure of insurgent groups and the success of DDR processes in Colombia
by Ernesto Cardenas & Kristian Skrede Gleditsch & Luis Carlos Guevara - 776-800 The MODEL social structure of an armed group: from Liberian refugees to heroes of Côte d’Ivoire and liberators of the homeland
by Ilmari Käihkö - 801-826 Insurgent courts in civil wars: the three pathways of (trans)formation in today’s Syria (2012–2017)
by Regine Schwab - 827-834 Cauldron of Resistance: Ngo Dinh Diem, the United States and 1950s Southern Vietnam
by Paul B. Rich - 830-834 Taliban narratives: the use of stories in the Afghanistan conflict
by Shanthie Mariet D’Souza - 835-837 Notes on Contributors
by The Editors
May 2018, Volume 29, Issue 3
- 379-390 Limited Statehood and its Security Implications on the Fragmentation Political Order in the Middle East and North Africa
by Abel Polese & Ruth Hanau Santini - 391-413 From Westphalian Failure to Heterarchic Governance in MENA: The Case of Syria
by Raymond Hinnebusch - 414-433 ‘What is in a Name?’: The Role of (Different) Identities in the Multiple Proxy Wars in Syria
by Christopher Phillips & Morten Valbjørn - 434-455 Competitive Statehood in Libya: Governing Differently a Specific Setting or Deconstructing its Weak Sovereign State with a Fateful Drift Toward Chaos?
by Philippe Droz-Vincent - 456-490 Between the Cracks: Actor Fragmentation and Local Conflict Systems in the Libyan Civil War
by Andrea Carboni & James Moody - 491-514 Security Assistance in a Post-interventionist Era: The Impact on Limited Statehood in Lebanon and Tunisia
by Ruth Hanau Santini & Simone Tholens - 515-536 Hizbullah’s Shaping Lebanon Statehood
by Daniel Meier - 537-559 Recognizing Fragmented Authority: Towards a post-Westphalian Security Order in Iraq
by Damian Doyle & Tristan Dunning - 560-578 Competing for Control over the State: The Case of Yemen
by Maria-Louise Clausen - 579-603 A Dangerous Method: How Mali Lost Control of the North, and Learned to Stop Worrying
by Edoardo Baldaro - 604-605 Notes on Contributors
by The Editors
March 2018, Volume 29, Issue 2
- 189-206 The Central Asian Militants: Cannon Fodder of Global Jihadism or Revolutionary Vanguard?
by Anna Matveeva & Antonio Giustozzi - 207-228 Modern Irregular Warfare: The ISIS Case Study
by Andrea Beccaro - 229-244 ISIS’s Warfare Functions: A Systematized Review of a Proto-state’s Conventional Conduct of Combat Operations
by Thomas Maurer - 245-268 The Environment as a Factor in Small Wars
by Marina Malamud - 269-290 The Bush War to Save the Rhino: Improving Counter-poaching Through Intelligence
by Kristian Gustafson & Touko Sandstrom & Luke Townsend - 291-315 Command Coordination and Tactical Effectiveness in Counter-insurgency Operations: Lessons from the South Korean Campaign
by Soul Park & Seung Joon Paik - 316-343 Developing Civil Society in the Non-state Sphere: Welfare and Rights-based Organisations Associated with Ethnic Armed Groups in Myanmar
by Stan Jagger - 344-366 A Question of ‘Government’ Control: Afghanistan DDR Programs Since 2001
by Major William Selber - 367-373 European Imperial Expansion, the Projection of Military Power and Colonial Insurgencies
by Paul B. Rich - 374-376 Poets and Prophets of the Resistance: Intellectuals and the Origins of El Salvador’s Civil War
by Srobana Bhattacharya - 377-378 Notes on Contributors
by The Editors
January 2018, Volume 29, Issue 1
- 1-37 The Illusion of Afghanistan’s Electoral Representative Democracy: The Cases of Afghan Presidential and National Legislative Elections
by Thomas H. Johnson - 38-67 Beyond the Unidades de Polícia Pacificadora: Countering Comando Vermelho’s Criminal Insurgency
by Claudio Ramos da Cruz & David H. Ucko - 68-90 Diversionary Tactics and the Ethiopia–Eritrea War (1998–2000)
by Charity Butcher & Makda Maru - 91-111 The Prickly Thorn: A Re-evaluation of Orde Wingate and the Special Night Squads
by Preston Jordan Lim - 112-130 Formation of Insurgent Groups: MEND and Boko Haram in Nigeria
by Olayinka Ajala - 131-140 Looking in: External Views of the Way Forward in Thai Southern Insurgency
by Thomas A. Marks - 141-163 Hybrid War and Its Countermeasures: A Critique of the Literature
by Robert Johnson - 164-186 A Cursed and Fragmented Island: History and Conflict Analysis in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea
by Antonino Adamo - 187-188 Notes on Contributors
by The Editors
November 2017, Volume 28, Issue 6
- 1-1 Correction to: Dingley and Herman, Terrorism, Radicalisation and Moral Panics: Media and Academic Analysis and Reporting of 2016 and 2017 ‘Terrorism’
by The Editors - 1-1 Editorial Board
by The Editors - 909-946 Bernard Fall and Vietnamese Revolutionary Warfare in Indochina
by Nathaniel L. Moir - 947-972 The Taliban’s Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (1996–2001): ‘War-Making and State-Making’ as an Insurgency Strategy
by S. Yaqub Ibrahimi - 973-995 Explaining Cohesion in an Insurgent Organization: The Case of the Mizo National Front
by Namrata Panwar - 996-1013 Terrorism, Radicalisation and Moral Panics: Media and Academic Analysis and Reporting of 2016 and 2017 ‘Terrorism’
by James Dingley & Sean Herman - 1014-1036 Can Governments Negotiate With Insurgents? The Latin American Experience
by Wilder Alejandro Sanchez & Erica Illingworth - 1037-1037 Notes on Contributors
by The Editors
September 2017, Volume 28, Issue 4-5
- 669-685 Rebels & Legitimacy; An Introduction
by Isabelle Duyvesteyn - 686-708 Understanding the Legitimacy of Armed Groups: A Relational Perspective
by Sukanya Podder - 709-733 (Re-)emergent orders: understanding the negotiation(s) of rebel governance
by James Worrall - 734-754 Building Legitimacy: Interactional Dynamics and the Popular Evaluation of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in Turkey
by Eric W. Schoon - 755-778 Civilian Cooperation and Non-Cooperation with Non-State Armed Groups: The Centrality of Obedience and Resistance
by Ana Arjona - 779-798 Youth Between State and Rebel (Dis)Orders: Contesting Legitimacy from Below in Sub-Sahara Africa
by Mirjam de Bruijn & Jonna Both - 799-816 Militias and the Politics of Legitimacy
by Ulrich Schneckener - 817-838 Legitimacy and the Politics of Recognition in Kosovo
by Lee J. M. Seymour - 839-852 All Counterinsurgency is Local: Counterinsurgency and Rebel Legitimacy
by Andrew J. Gawthorpe - 853-866 ‘Legitimacy is the Main Objective’: Legitimation in Population-Centric Counterinsurgency
by Martijn Kitzen - 867-886 From Rebel to Quasi-State: Governance, Diplomacy and Legitimacy in the Midst of Afghanistan’s Wars (1979–2001)
by Romain Malejacq - 887-905 Subcontracting State-Building
by Abbey Steele & Jacob N. Shapiro - 906-908 Notes on Contributors
by The Editors
May 2017, Volume 28, Issue 3
- 409-425 Back to the future – people’s war in the 21st century
by Thomas A. Marks & Paul B. Rich - 426-450 Revolutionary leadership as necessary element in people’s war: Shining Path of Peru
by David Scott Palmer - 451-487 People’s war antithesis: Che Guevara and the mythology of Focismo
by Paul B. Rich - 488-523 FARC, 1982–2002: criminal foundation for insurgent defeat
by Thomas A. Marks - 524-545 Was FARC militarily defeated?
by Carlos Alberto Ospina Ovalle - 546-575 Critical ingredient: US aid to counterinsurgency in Colombia
by Carlos G. Berrios - 576-608 A double-edged sword: the people’s uprising in Ghazni, Afghanistan
by Matthew P. Dearing - 609-628 The North Caucasus: from mass mobilization to international terrorism
by Elena Pokalova - 629-660 Bolivia, a new model insurgency for the 21st century: from Mao back to Lenin
by David E. Spencer & Hugo Acha Melgar - 661-662 The Sino-Indian War of 1962: New Perspectives
by David R. Stone - 662-665 Missionaries of modernity. Advisory missions and the struggle for hegemony in Afghanistan and beyond
by Alex Marshall - 666-667 Notes on Contributors
by The Editors
March 2017, Volume 28, Issue 2
- 267-290 The Awakening Movement: A Narrative-level Study of Mobilization
by Allen Newton - 291-308 Merits and Limits of Counter-ideological Work Against Terrorism: A Critical Appraisal
by Walid Jumblatt Abdullah - 309-336 An Unlikely Alliance: Portuguese and South African Airpower in Angola, 1968–1974
by John P. Cann & José Manuel Correia - 337-360 Governmental Re-organization in Counterinsurgency Context: Foreign Policy Program Transfer and Operation Switchback in South Vietnam
by Jon Strandquist - 361-384 ‘A Sledgehammer to Crack a Nut’? Naval Gunfire Support During the Malayan Emergency
by Steven Paget - 385-400 How might Democratisation Affect Military Professionalism in Africa? Reviewing the Literature
by Colin Robinson - 401-404 Collateral Damage: A Candid History of a Peculiar Form of Death; War and War Crimes: The Military, Legitimacy and Success in Armed Conflict
by Cian O’Driscoll - 404-405 Ionian Vision: Greece in Asia Minor
by Matthew R. Schwonek - 406-407 Notes on Contributors
by The Editors
January 2017, Volume 28, Issue 1
- 1-11 Countering Insurgencies, Terrorism and Violent Extremism in South Asia
by Shanthie Mariet D’Souza - 12-33 Counterinsurgency Challenge in Post-2001 Afghanistan
by Antonio Giustozzi - 34-56 Insurgency and Violent Extremism in Pakistan
by Marvin G. Weinbaum - 57-80 India: Fleeting Attachment to the Counterinsurgency Grand Strategy
by Bibhu Prasad Routray - 81-118 Terrorism as Method in Nepali Maoist Insurgency, 1996–2016
by Thomas A. Marks - 119-165 Size Still Matters: Explaining Sri Lanka’s Counterinsurgency Victory over the Tamil Tigers
by Sameer P. Lalwani - 166-190 Counter-Insurgency in Pakistan: The Role of Legitimacy
by Anatol Lieven - 191-217 Bangladesh: The Changing Dynamics of Violent Extremism and the Response of the State
by Shahab Enam Khan - 218-232 Brinkmanship, not COIN, in Pakistan’s post-9/11 Internal War
by Samir Puri - 233-258 From Nationalism to Factionalism: Faultlines in the Naga Insurgency
by Namrata Panwar - 259-262 Leo Strauss and the Invasion of Iraq: Encountering the Abyss
by Sarah Earnshaw - 263-265 Notes on Contributors
by The Editors
November 2016, Volume 27, Issue 6
- 1-1 Editorial Board
by The Editors - 971-995 Historical and Political Background to the Erosion of the Rule of Law and Human Rights During Sri Lanka’s Civil War and the Way Forward
by Tameshnie Deane - 996-1018 The limits of covert action: SAS operations during ‘Confrontation’, 1964–66
by Christopher Tuck - 1019-1042 Moving Beyond Population-Centric vs. Enemy-Centric Counterinsurgency
by Christopher Paul & Colin P. Clarke & Beth Grill & Molly Dunigan - 1043-1066 Filibustering from Africa to the Americas: non-state actors and empire
by Dominic Alessio - 1067-1068 At the End of Military Intervention: Historical, Theoretical, and Applied Approaches to Transition, Handover, and Withdrawal
by Huw Bennett - 1069-1070 Notes on Contributors
by The Editors
September 2016, Volume 27, Issue 5
- 729-732 Preface
by Ahmed Al-Hamli - 733-742 Introduction
by Paul B. Rich - 743-776 The Islamic State and the Return of Revolutionary Warfare
by Craig Whiteside - 777-799 How revolutionary are Jihadist insurgencies? The case of ISIL
by Paul B. Rich - 800-816 Global Jihad and Foreign Fighters
by George Joffé - 817-836 A Fratricidal Libya: Making Sense of a Conflict Complex
by Mikael Eriksson - 837-857 Belgian and Dutch Jihadist Foreign Fighters (2012–2015): Characteristics, Motivations, and Roles in the War in Syria and Iraq
by Edwin Bakker & Roel de Bont - 858-877 Who Goes, Why, and With What Effects: The Problem of Foreign Fighters from Europe
by Lasse Lindekilde & Preben Bertelsen & Michael Stohl - 878-895 A Sectarian Jihad in Nigeria: The Case of Boko Haram
by Marc-Antoine Pérouse de Montclos - 896-913 Operation Barkhane and Boko Haram: French Counterterrorism and Military Cooperation in the Sahel
by Christopher Griffin - 914-936 Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb: Terrorism, insurgency, or organized crime?
by Sergei Boeke - 937-957 Shapeshifter of Somalia: Evolution of the Political Territoriality of Al-Shabaab
by Bohumil Doboš - 958-967 Jihadist insurgency and the prospects for peace and security
by Richard Burchill - 968-969 Notes on Contributors
by The Editors
July 2016, Volume 27, Issue 4
- 557-577 Jihad in Jammu and Kashmir: actors, agendas and expanding benchmarks
by Shanthie Mariet D'Souza & Bibhu Prasad Routray - 578-607 From elite consumption to popular opinion: framing of the US drone program in Pakistani newspapers
by Christine Fair & Ali Hamza - 608-635 Selling the end of terrorism: a framing approach to the IRA’s disengagement from armed violence
by Gordon Clubb - 636-658 Development of proxy relationships: a case study of the Lebanese Civil War
by Brendan Sozer - 659-680 The UK, interrogation and Iraq, 2003–2008
by Samantha Newbery - 681-701 Population transfers in counter-insurgency: a recipe for success?
by Spyridon Plakoudas - 702-725 British counterinsurgency in Brunei and Sarawak, 1962–1963: developing best practices in the shadow of Malaya
by Alexander Nicholas Shaw - 726-727 Unmanned Combat Air Systems in Future Warfare: gaining control of the air
by Ulrike Esther Franke - 728-728 Notes on Contributors
by The Editors
May 2016, Volume 27, Issue 3
- 361-366 Introduction: hybrid warfare in post-Soviet spaces, is there a logic behind?
by Abel Polese & Rob Kevlihan & Donnacha Ó Beacháin - 367-391 Insurgency-informed governance in the North Caucasus: observations from Chechnya, Dagestan, and Kabardino-Balkaria
by Jan Koehler & Alexey Gunya & Magomed Alkhazurov - 392-416 Evaluating the efficacy of indigenous forces in counterinsurgency: Lessons from Chechnya and Dagestan
by Emil Aslan Souleimanov & Huseyn Aliyev - 417-439 Insurgency in Central Asia: A case study of Tajikistan
by Rob Kevlihan - 440-466 The secret lives of unrecognised states: Internal dynamics, external relations, and counter-recognition strategies
by Donnacha Ó Beacháin & Giorgio Comai & Ann Tsurtsumia-Zurabashvili - 467-490 The rhetoric of irredentism: The Russian Federation’s perception management campaign and the annexation of Crimea
by Thomas Ambrosio - 491-511 The Ukrainian conflict in Russian foreign policy: Rethinking the interconnections between domestic and foreign policy strategies
by Licínia Simão - 512-537 The limits of soft balancing: the frozen conflict in Transnistria and the challenge to EU and NATO strategy
by Ryan Kennedy - 538-549 What mix of brigade combat teams should the US Army Field?
by David Tier - 550-552 Cyber War versus Cyber Realities: Cyber Conflict in the International System
by John E. Gudgel - 553-555 Notes on Contributors
by The Editors
March 2016, Volume 27, Issue 2
- 183-195 From civil war to proxy war: past history and current dilemmas
by Alex Marshall - 196-225 Militias in internal warfare: From the colonial era to the contemporary Middle East
by Geraint Hughes - 226-242 Conducting counterinsurgency with productive power
by Carsten F. Roennfeldt - 243-257 Purposes and pitfalls of war by proxy: A systemic analysis
by Seyom Brown - 258-281 Hurray for militias? Not so fast: Lessons from the Afghan Local Police experience
by Vanda Felbab-Brown - 282-301 Hybrid, ambiguous, and non-linear? How new is Russia’s ‘new way of war’?
by Mark Galeotti - 302-324 EU initiatives along the ‘cocaine routes’ to Europe: Fighting drug trafficking and terrorism by proxy?
by Eva Magdalena Stambøl - 325-344 The modern state in epochal transition: The significance of irregular warfare, state deconstruction, and the rise of new warfighting entities beyond neo-medievalism
by Robert J. Bunker & Pamela Ligouri Bunker - 345-349 Clausewitz on Small War
by Sibylle Scheipers - 349-353 Response to Sibylle Scheipers
by Christopher Daase & James Davis - 354-355 War and Society in Afghanistan: From the Mughals to the Americans, 1500–2013
by Ryan Shaffer - 356-357 Hezbollah: A Short History, Hezbollah: An Outsiders Inside View
by Adriana Curto - 358-359 Notes on Contributors
by The Editors
January 2016, Volume 27, Issue 1
- 1-21 The fateful phoenix: the revival of Al-Qa’ida in Iraq
by George Joffé - 22-38 After ISAF: partners and proxies in Afghanistan after 2014
by Austin Long - 39-58 Decentralising authoritarianism? The international intervention, the new ‘revolutionaries’ and the involution of Post-Qadhafi Libya
by Mattia Toaldo - 59-80 French intervention in Mali: strategic alliances, long-term regional presence?
by Susanna D. Wing - 81-105 Northern Ireland and minimum force: the refutation of a concept?
by B. W. Morgan & M. L. R. Smith - 106-131 Panjwai: a tale of two COINs in Afghanistan
by Paul Lushenko & John Hardy - 132-153 The ‘first’ surge: the repulse of the Easter Invasion in South Vietnam, 1972 – implications for Iraq and Afghanistan
by Timothy J. Lomperis - 154-178 Carlo Bianco and Guerra per bande: an Italian approach to irregular warfare
by Andrea Beccaro - 179-181 Notes on Contributors
by The Editors
November 2015, Volume 26, Issue 6
- (985) Call for Chapters
by The Editors - 1-1 Editorial Board
by The Editors - 865-885 Problems with the Kurds as proxies against Islamic State: insights from the siege of Kobane
by Rod Thornton - 886-911 Cognitivism, prospect theory, and foreign policy change: a comparative analysis of the politics of counterinsurgency in Malaya and Afghanistan
by Eszter Simon - 912-936 Fighting on Their Own Terms: The Tactics of the Irish Republican Army 1919-1921
by Maura R. Cremin - 937-956 Soldiers contra diplomats: Britain’s role in the Zimbabwe/Rhodesia ceasefire (1979–1980) reconsidered
by Blessing-Miles Tendi