Small Wars and Insurgencies

2000 - 2025

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Volume 36, issue 6, 2025

Iran’s proxy war paradox: strategic gains, control issues, and operational constraints pp. 997-1024

Hüseyin Faruk Şimşek

Weaponising ‘apparently harmless portable objects’: emerging categorisations of trust and risk in post ‘pager attacks’ Lebanon pp. 1025-1048

Tobias Boelt Back

State building terrorists’ groups: case study of Taliban pp. 1049-1076

Agnietė Žotkevičiūtė Banevičienė

The Uthmān dan Fodiyo Jihād, colonial rule and Islamic authority in Northern Nigeria: referencing within Boko Haram’s discourse pp. 1077-1105

Akali Omeni

Non-military actors, IED networks and guerrilla warfare: unpacking small wars dynamics within the conflict landscape in Southeast Nigeria pp. 1106-1134

Mark Peter Jatau

Conflict-driven human trafficking, internally displaced persons, and legal responses in Ethiopia: the northern conflict in focus pp. 1135-1163

Getye Abneh Tadesse and Tesfaye Tafesse

Civil wars and armed groups under COVID-19: motivations and factors in the silencing guns and the persistence of violence pp. 1164-1206

Sergio Aguilar and Julia Aparecido

Contributing factors to PKK’s failure to implement Mao’s protracted people’s war strategy pp. 1207-1249

Nihat Ali Özcan and Erol Başaran Bural

Colonizing Palestine: The Zionist left and the making of the Palestinian Nakba pp. 1250-1253

Paul B. Rich

Volume 36, issue 5, 2025

Tunes of Glory and all that: class, lowland-highland divisions, and the decline of gentlemanly authority in British military cinema pp. 823-842

Paul B Rich

(De)Constructing the Iron wall: the story of Palestinian military infiltration from the Gaza Strip pp. 843-869

Yara Nassar

The role of ideology in explaining the strength of Iran’s proxy relationships pp. 870-891

David M. Sip

Women’s jihadi radicalization: tracing ISIS women in case of Turkey pp. 892-916

Gulfer Ulas

Fragmented frontiers: three approaches to understanding irregular warfare pp. 917-944

Christian Tripodi

The German campaign of the IRA and its resolution by Eberhard Spiecker and Alec Reid pp. 945-962

Jan Freytag

Sustaining conflict: identity, ontological (in)security, and Azerbaijan’s policy toward Armenia after the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh War pp. 963-995

Levon Hovsepyan and Artyom A. Tonoyan

Volume 36, issue 4, 2025

Introduction: state capture by militias, paramilitaries, and organized crime pp. 625-636

Federico Manfredi Firmian

Hezbollah’s state capture in Lebanon pp. 637-658

Lina Khatib

How Iran aligned militias seized Iraq: irregular warfare, lawfare and regime change pp. 659-697

Crispin Smith and Michael Knights

Beyond state capture: the case of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Sudan pp. 698-726

Majak D’Agoôt

Capturing Calabria? ‘ndrangheta, corruption, and maladministration in local public institutions in Southern Italy pp. 727-755

Anna Sergi and Alberto Vannucci

From conventional insurgency to binational criminal syndicate? ELN’s state capture in the Colombia-Venezuela Borderland pp. 756-782

Jorge Mantilla and Andreas E. Feldmann

Russia’s state capture strategy in Africa, from Wagner to the Africa corps pp. 783-812

Federico Manfredi Firmian

When Rambo Meets the Red Cross: civil-military engagement in Fragile states pp. 813-817

Lawrence E. Cline

The struggles and resilience of Northeast India: a critical examination of Three Key Texts pp. 817-822

Derhasat Narzary

Volume 36, issue 3, 2025

Striking the balance in arctic security: the role of special operations forces in a small state’s defense against armed attacks pp. 445-473

Jostein Mattingsdal, Tone Danielsen and Kjetil Mellingen

Organizational form and fatalities in Michoacán’s vigilante movement, 2012–2015 pp. 474-501

Dolores Trevizo and Michael J. Wolff

Rebel group branding and external intervention pp. 502-528

Amy Skoll

Shifts in Azerbaijani discourse: Heydar Aliyev’s rhetorical transformation in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict negotiation process pp. 529-551

Naira Sahakyan and Anahit Kartashyan

Terrorist alliance formation: the case of Islamic State and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi in Balochistan (Pakistan) pp. 552-575

Khurram Shahzad Siddiqui

Another front, another story: relief and rehabilitation in post-second World War Northeast India, 1944–1955 pp. 576-610

Jangkhomang Guite

ULFA: The Mirage of Dawn pp. 611-613

Derhasat Narzary and Jenthoka Basumatary

Number 788: my experience in Swedish special operations—preparing for NATO and the War on Terror pp. 614-616

Paul Shemella

Rebel militias in Eastern Ukraine: from leaderless groups to proxy army pp. 616-620

Lawrence E. Cline

Counterinsurgency warfare and brutalisation: the second Russian-Chechen war pp. 620-624

Lawrence E. Cline

Volume 36, issue 2, 2025

Institutions, power-sharing, and the cohesiveness of rebel coalitions in the Syrian civil war pp. 245-268

Edoardo Corradi and Giampiero Cama

Process tracing and non-state violent actors: ensuring methodological rigor in the study of non-state violent actors (without getting yourself killed) pp. 269-298

Julie Mazzei and Sweta Sen

When terrorists attempt politics: an evaluation of Lashkar-e-Taiba’s pursuit of political transformation pp. 299-326

Julian Droogan, Khuram Iqbal and Syed Adnan Bukhari

Advocating for rebellion – Rebel diplomacy and international advocacy in the Bougainville Crisis pp. 327-352

Christopher Brucker

Dispersing into the ether: a discourse on how the Ugandan government banished the LRA to the shadow realm pp. 353-377

Majak D’Agoôt

The myth of ‘hearts and minds’ in cold war Borneo 1962–74 pp. 378-401

David Phillips

Logistics of British counterinsurgency during the Indian Rebellion: 1857–1859 pp. 402-435

Kaushik Roy

Understanding insurgent resilience: organizational structures and the implications for counterinsurgency pp. 436-438

Lawrence E. Cline

From jihad to politics: how Syrian jihadis embraced politics pp. 439-443

Ahmed Sahal K. P

Volume 36, issue 1, 2025

Unpacking water conflicts in Africa: exploring key drivers pp. 1-28

Lucie Konecna

Maritime asymmetric warfare strategy for smaller states: lessons from Ukraine pp. 29-58

Md. Tanvir Habib and Shah Md Shamrir Al Af

Do mercenaries perform better than states? Evaluating the Wagner group’s impact on Central African Republic pp. 59-86

Ori Swed and Alessandro Arduino

Legitimacy in conflict contexts: shifting rebel engagement in Sierra Leone and the presence of private contractors pp. 87-119

Anne Lauder

Accumulation by/for terrorism: the political economy of terrorism financing in Nigeria pp. 120-159

Promise Frank Ejiofor

One conflict, different meanings: a comparative analysis of Armenian and Azerbaijani narratives of victory in Nagorno-Karabakh wars pp. 160-184

Erik Davtyan

Choking off democratic channels and the resort to violence: how the political genocide of Unión Patriótica (UP) candidates escalated and perpetuated Colombia’s armed conflict pp. 185-212

Jenaro Abraham, Kelsey Carlston and Stacy Bondanella Taninchev

Traces of Post-Soviet revolution poetic cinema in the films of Sergei Loznitsa pp. 213-235

Sibel Sebuktekin and Yasemin Kılınçarslan

Citizenship and genocide cards: IDs, statelessness and Rohingya resistance in Myanmar pp. 236-238

Ananda Kumar Biswas

Insurgency in India’s northeast: identity formation, postcolonial nation/state-building, and secessionist resistance pp. 238-240

Lawrence E. Cline

We had the Watches. They had the Time: A Witness Account of the War in Afghanistan pp. 241-243

Meherab Hossain and Md. Obaidullah