Policing Insurgencies

Cops as Counterinsurgents

Edited by C. Christine Fair and Sumit Ganguly

Oxford International Relations in South Asia

Addresses the relative lacuna in literature on the role of police in counterinsurgency operations
Includes several practical cases on counterinsurgency campaigns
Provides valuable insights by eminent academics, researchers, and officials related to police services

Policing Insurgencies

Cops as Counterinsurgents

Edited by C. Christine Fair and Sumit Ganguly

Oxford International Relations in South Asia

Description

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.

Policing Insurgencies

Cops as Counterinsurgents

Edited by C. Christine Fair and Sumit Ganguly

Oxford International Relations in South Asia

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

Policing Insurgencies

Cops as Counterinsurgents

Edited by C. Christine Fair and Sumit Ganguly

Oxford International Relations in South Asia

Author Information

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

Contributors:

Huw C. Bennett is Lecturer, Defence Studies Department, King's College, London; Jugdep S. Chima is Lecturer, Department of Political Science, University of California-Berkeley; Mark Cochrane is a former police officer, Police Service of Northern Ireland and the Royal Ulster Constabulary George Cross; David P. Fidler is James Louis Calamaras Professor of Law, Maurer School of Law, Indiana University; Walter C. Ladwig III is Assistant Professor, International Relations, University of Oxford; and Visiting Fellow, Royal United Services Institute, UK; Austin Long is Assistant Professor, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University; Andrew Mumford is Lecturer, Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham, UK; Adnan Naseemullah is LSE Fellow in Comparative Politics, Department of Government, London School of Economics and Political Science; Joshua Paul served two tours supporting the Ministry of Interior of Iraq, one with the Departments of State and Defense and the other with the Department for International Development, UK; Kumar Ramakrishna is Head, Centre of Excellence for National Security, and Associate Professor, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; Matthew Sherman served more than three years in Iraq with the Departments of State and Defense; Jennifer Taw is Assistant Professor, Government and International Relations, Claremont McKenna College, Claremont; Arvind Verma served in the Indian Police Service, where he held several senior level positions.