Policing Insurgencies

Cops as Counterinsurgents
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-0-19-809488-3
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 416 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 213 mm, Gewicht: 544 g

The importance of police forces in combating insurgencies is receiving increasing attention from policymakers and national leaders, but there is little academic work addressing the question of how police forces should be trained and deployed in such conflicts. This edited volume sets out to correct this imbalance through a series of case studies, drawn from Central, South, and Southeast Asia, as also Africa and the Middle East, which examine the circumstances under which police forces have failed to quell insurgencies-or even worsened internal security-as well as when they have proved themselves an essential part of the solution. Each case study covers the history of the insurgency, attempts to reform the police forces to confront it, and the success or failure of those attempts, concluding by presenting lessons learned for future counterinsurgent governments. Each chapter is written by a well-established scholar who has spent considerable time in the country under study.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fair, C Christine

Ganguly, Sumit

Fair, C. Christine

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Verwaltungsrecht Verwaltungspraxis Polizei
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtssoziologie, Rechtspsychologie, Rechtslinguistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- CONTENTS:

- Acknowledgements

- List of Tables and Figures

- List of Abbreviations

- Introduction: The Police in Counterinsurgency Operations, C. Christine Fair and Sumit Ganguly

- 1. When the Police are the Problem: The Philippine Constabulary and the Hukbalahap Rebellion, Walter Ladwig

- 2. 'The Police Must be Part of the People and the People Part of the Police': Policing in the Malayan Emergency (1948-60), Kumar Ramakrishna

- 3. Policing in Kenya during the Mau Mau Emergency, 1952-60, Huw Bennett and Andrew Mumford

- 4. The Role of the Royal Ulster Constabulary in Northern Ireland Mark Cochrane

- 5. Problems and Potential: The Role of the Police in the Colombian Insurgency, Jennifer Taw

- 6. Police Capacity and Insurgency in Pakistan, Adnan Naseemullah

- 7. The Police in Afghanistan, 2002-2011, Austin Long

- 8. The Role of Police in Counterinsurgency Operations in Iraq, 2003-2006, Matt Sherman and Joshua Paul

- 9. The Punjab Police and Counterinsurgency Against Sikh Militants in India: The Successful Convergence of Interests, Identities, and Institutions, Jugdep S. Chima

- 10. The Police and India's Maoist Insurgency, Arvind Verma

- 11. Police in Counterinsurgency: The Challenge of Comprehensive Reformation, David P. Fidler

- Index

- About the Editors and Contributors

Über Autor(innen)

C Christine Fair is Assistant Professor, Centre for Peace and Security Studies, Edmund A Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, USA.

Sumit Ganguly is Professor of Political Science and Rabindranath Tagore Chair in Indian Cultures and Civilizations, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA.