Small Wars and Insurgencies

2000 - 2025

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Volume 33, issue 8, 2022

Dynamic insurgencies and peace nuances in India’s northeast region pp. 1259-1284

Anns George K G and Sanjay Kumar Jha

Munathamat Badr, from an armed wing to a ruling actor pp. 1285-1313

Zana Gulmohamad

Cyclical jihadist governance: the Islamic State governance cycle in Iraq and Syria pp. 1314-1344

Matthew Bamber-Zryd

Understanding the role of digital media in female participation in terrorism: the case of Bangladesh pp. 1345-1371

Saimum Parvez and Justin V. Hastings

Decoding the message: understanding soldiers’ mutiny in Nigeria’s counterinsurgency fight pp. 1372-1397

Patrick Afamefune Ikem, Freedom C. Onuoha, Herbert C. Edeh, Olihe A. Ononogbu and Chukwuemeka Enyiazu

Party system change and internal security: evidence from India, 2005-2021 pp. 1398-1420

Subhasish Ray

Transfers of colonial (dis)order: guerrilla warfare and the British military thought after the Great War pp. 1421-1443

Stanislav Malkin

Bullets not ballots: success in counterinsurgency warfare pp. 1444-1448

William N. Holden

Volume 33, issue 7, 2022

Afghanistan and the COIN conundrum pp. 1085-1092

Thomas R. Mockaitis

Counterinsurgency and the rule of law in Afghanistan pp. 1093-1129

Bryce G. Poole

US intervention in Afghanistan and the failure of governance pp. 1130-1151

Phil Williams

The two surges: Iraq and Afghanistan in comparison pp. 1152-1176

Lawrence E. Cline

Contextualising the Taliban redux (2021): is the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan a Pyrrhic Victory for Pakistan? pp. 1177-1202

Zahid Ullah

Modern war in an Ancient Land: a counterinsurgency review pp. 1203-1215

Carter Malkasian

Tribal mobilisation during the Syrian civil war: the case of al-Baqqer brigade pp. 1216-1235

Haian Dukhan

Operation Intradon in the Musandam,1970-1971: what this counterinsurgency operation says about British military operations in the Arabian Gulf pp. 1236-1258

Athol Yates and Geraint Hughes

Volume 33, issue 6, 2022

Foreign fighter experience and impact pp. 927-953

Nicola Mathieson

Neither peace nor democracy: the role of siege and population control in the Syrian regime’s coercive counterinsurgency campaign pp. 954-972

Benedetta Berti and Marika Sosnowski

Whose proxy war? The competition among Iranian foreign policy elites in Iraq pp. 973-998

Christian Høj Hansen and Troels Burchall Henningsen

Deterrence by insurgents: Hezbollah’s military doctrine and capability vis-à-vis Israel pp. 999-1016

Massaab Al-Aloosy

Critical review of the protection of aircraft defense forces during the conflict in Nagorno Karabah in 2020 pp. 1017-1031

Miroslav Terzić

Troops or Tanks? Rethinking COIN mechanization and force employment pp. 1032-1058

Ryan C. Van Wie and Jacob A. Walden

Evaluating the effect of military intervention on rebel governance in terms of disaggregated human security pp. 1059-1084

Koki Shigenoi and Wakako Maekawa

Volume 33, issue 4-5, 2022

Global counterinsurgency and the police-military continuum: introduction to the special issue pp. 553-580

Stuart Schrader

Importing the ‘West German model’: transnationalizing counterinsurgency policing in Cold War Costa Rica pp. 581-606

Fabian Bennewitz and Markus-Michael Müller

'Public order is the first business of government': The Law Enforcement Assistance Administration and the making of a liberal counterinsurgent police-industrial complex pp. 607-632

Brendan Hornbostel

‘Police fire on rioters’: everyday counterinsurgency in a colonial capital pp. 633-653

Kaden Paulson-Smith

FROM CRIME FIGHTING TO COUNTERINSURGENCY: The Transformation of London’s Special Patrol Group in the 1970s pp. 654-672

Julian Go

Normalizing counterinsurgency in the United States: first responders as the first line of defense pp. 673-692

Diren Valayden

The secret of BlueLeaks: security, police, and the continuum of pacification pp. 693-719

Brendan McQuade, Lorax B. Horne, Zach Wehrwein and Milo Z. Trujillo

Counterinsurgency, community participation, and the preventing and countering violent extremism agenda in Kenya pp. 720-741

Elizabeth Mesok

Policing insurgency: are more militarized police more effective? pp. 742-766

Erica De Bruin

Hollywood and the hourglass war: cinematic images of drug cartels and conflict on the US-Mexican border pp. 767-795

Paul B Rich

India’s counterinsurgency knowledge: theorizing global position in wars on terror pp. 796-818

Rhys Machold

International involvement in (re-)building police forces: a comparison of US and UN police assistance programs around the world pp. 819-845

Cameron Mailhot, Michael Kriner and Sabrina Karim

The multilateral production of global policing: UN peace operations as hubs for protest policing pp. 846-867

Lou Pingeot

‘The only thing is you have to know them first’: protest policing and Malaysia’s BERSIH protests (2011–2016) pp. 868-901

Kia Meng Boon

The fungible terrorist: abject whiteness, domestic terrorism, and the multicultural security state pp. 902-925

Andrea Miller and Lisa Bhungalia

Volume 33, issue 3, 2022

Non-inclusive ceasefires do not bring peace: findings from Myanmar pp. 313-349

Stein Tønnesson, Min Zaw Oo and Ne Lynn Aung

Fighting ISIS in Syria: Operation Euphrates Shield and the lessons learned from the al-Bab Battle pp. 350-381

Ömer Faruk Cantenar and Cyprian Aleksander Kozera

The depiction of women in jihadi magazines: a comparative analysis of Islamic State, Al Qaeda, Taliban and Tahrik-e Taliban Pakistan pp. 382-408

Weeda Mehran, Dominika Imiolek, Lucy Smeddle and Jack Springett-Gilling

‘Forever wars’? Patterns of diffusion and consolidation of Jihadism in Africa pp. 409-436

Stig Jarle Hansen

Evolving doctrine and modus operandi: violent extremism in Cabo Delgado pp. 437-466

Thomas Heyen-Dubé and Richard Rands

Protection or predation? Understanding the behavior of community-created self-defense militias during civil wars pp. 467-498

Mohammed Ibrahim Shire

Integration of Iran-backed armed groups into the Iraqi and Syrian armed forces: implications for stability in Iraq and Syria pp. 499-527

Hamidreza Azizi

Psychiatric casualties and the British counter-insurgency in Malaya pp. 528-549

Thomas Probert

Colonial institutions and civil war: indirect rule and maoist insurgency in India pp. 550-552

C. Christine Fair

Volume 33, issue 1-2, 2022

Advancing private security studies: introduction to the special issue pp. 1-21

Eugenio Cusumano and Christopher Kinsey

Mercenaries in/and history: the problem of ahistoricism and contextualism in mercenary scholarship pp. 22-47

Malte Riemann

Mercenaries and private military corporations in ancient and early medieval South Asia pp. 48-70

Kaushik Roy

‘Useless and dangerous’? Mercenaries in fourteenth century wars pp. 71-91

Matteo C.M. Casiraghi

The Social Construction of Mercenaries: German Soldiers in British Service during the Eighteenth Century pp. 92-111

Helene Olsen

Mercenaries in the Congo and Biafra, 1960-1970: Africa’s weapon of choice? pp. 112-129

Stephen Rookes and Walter Bruyère-Ostells

Private military companies – Russian great power politics on the cheap? pp. 130-151

Åse Gilje Østensen and Tor Bukkvoll

The UAE’s ‘dogs of war’: boosting a small state’s regional power projection pp. 152-172

Andreas Krieg

China’s private security companies and the protection of Chinese economic interests abroad pp. 173-195

Jingdong Yuan

What does gender got to do with it? PMSCs and privatization of security revisited pp. 196-223

Jutta Joachim and Andrea Schneiker

Mercenaries at the movies: representations of soldiers of fortune in Mexico and the Congo in American and European cinema pp. 224-249

Paul B Rich

Contractors or robots? Future warfare between privatization and automation pp. 250-271

Antonio Calcara

The rise of cybersecurity warriors? pp. 272-293

Moritz Weiss

Concluding comments pp. 294-312

Eugenio Cusumano and Christopher Kinsey