Policing Insurgencies

Cops as Counterinsurgents
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-0-19-809488-3
Verlag: Hurst & Co.

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

Reihe: Oxford International Relations in South Asia

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

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

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.