Small Wars and Insurgencies

2000 - 2025

Current editor(s): Paul Rich

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Volume 29, issue 5-6, 2018

The multidimensional nature of the Boko Haram conflict pp. 839-862

James J. Hentz

‘The only good jihadist is a dead jihadist’:Boko Haram and de-radicalization around Lake Chad pp. 863-885

Marc-Antoine Pérouse de Montclos

Boko Haram’s increasingly sophisticated military threat pp. 886-915

Akali Omeni

End of the cycle: assessing ETA’s strategies of terrorism pp. 916-940

Charles W. Mahoney

Cyber sheiks and grassroots jihadis: the war in Syria and the devolution of the Bosnian Salafi communities pp. 941-963

Aleksander Zdravkovski

Expeditionary police advising: some causes of failure pp. 964-980

Donald Stoker and Edward B. Westermann

The effect of foreign state support to UNITA during the Angolan War (1975–1991) pp. 981-1005

Quint Hoekstra

The myth of Afghan electoral democracy: the irregularities of the 2014 presidential election pp. 1006-1039

Thomas H. Johnson

Explaining the impact of militancy on Iran–Pakistan relations pp. 1040-1064

Saira Basit

Are Mao Zedong and Maoist thought irrelevant in the understanding of insurgencies? pp. 1065-1078

Paul B Rich

Notes on contributors pp. 1079-1080

The Editors

Volume 29, issue 4, 2018

The social structure of armed groups. Reproduction and change during and after conflict pp. 607-628

Daniel Bultmann

The FARC’s militaristic blueprint pp. 629-653

Francisco Gutiérrez-Sanín

Unity is the exception. Alliance formation and de-formation among armed actors in Northern Mali pp. 654-679

Nicolas Desgrais, Yvan Guichaoua and Andrew Lebovich

Bourdieu’s capital and insurgent group resilience:a field-theoretic approach to the polisario front pp. 680-708

Claire M. Metelits

Forces of heresy versus forces of conservation: making sense of Hezb-e Islami-ye Afghanistan’s and the Taleban’s positions in the Afghan insurgency pp. 709-734

Philipp Münch

The structural origins of social cohesion: the dynamics of micro-solidarity in 1991–1995 Wars of Yugoslav Succession pp. 735-753

Siniša Malešević

Network structure of insurgent groups and the success of DDR processes in Colombia pp. 754-775

Ernesto Cardenas, Kristian Skrede Gleditsch and Luis Carlos Guevara

The MODEL social structure of an armed group: from Liberian refugees to heroes of Côte d’Ivoire and liberators of the homeland pp. 776-800

Ilmari Käihkö

Insurgent courts in civil wars: the three pathways of (trans)formation in today’s Syria (2012–2017) pp. 801-826

Regine Schwab

Cauldron of Resistance: Ngo Dinh Diem, the United States and 1950s Southern Vietnam pp. 827-834

Paul B. Rich

Taliban narratives: the use of stories in the Afghanistan conflict pp. 830-834

Shanthie Mariet D’Souza

Notes on Contributors pp. 835-837

The Editors

Volume 29, issue 3, 2018

Limited Statehood and its Security Implications on the Fragmentation Political Order in the Middle East and North Africa pp. 379-390

Abel Polese and Ruth Hanau Santini

From Westphalian Failure to Heterarchic Governance in MENA: The Case of Syria pp. 391-413

Raymond Hinnebusch

‘What is in a Name?’: The Role of (Different) Identities in the Multiple Proxy Wars in Syria pp. 414-433

Christopher Phillips and Morten Valbjørn

Competitive Statehood in Libya: Governing Differently a Specific Setting or Deconstructing its Weak Sovereign State with a Fateful Drift Toward Chaos? pp. 434-455

Philippe Droz-Vincent

Between the Cracks: Actor Fragmentation and Local Conflict Systems in the Libyan Civil War pp. 456-490

Andrea Carboni and James Moody

Security Assistance in a Post-interventionist Era: The Impact on Limited Statehood in Lebanon and Tunisia pp. 491-514

Ruth Hanau Santini and Simone Tholens

Hizbullah’s Shaping Lebanon Statehood pp. 515-536

Daniel Meier

Recognizing Fragmented Authority: Towards a post-Westphalian Security Order in Iraq pp. 537-559

Damian Doyle and Tristan Dunning

Competing for Control over the State: The Case of Yemen pp. 560-578

Maria-Louise Clausen

A Dangerous Method: How Mali Lost Control of the North, and Learned to Stop Worrying pp. 579-603

Edoardo Baldaro

Notes on Contributors pp. 604-605

The Editors

Volume 29, issue 2, 2018

The Central Asian Militants: Cannon Fodder of Global Jihadism or Revolutionary Vanguard? pp. 189-206

Anna Matveeva and Antonio Giustozzi

Modern Irregular Warfare: The ISIS Case Study pp. 207-228

Andrea Beccaro

ISIS’s Warfare Functions: A Systematized Review of a Proto-state’s Conventional Conduct of Combat Operations pp. 229-244

Thomas Maurer

The Environment as a Factor in Small Wars pp. 245-268

Marina Malamud

The Bush War to Save the Rhino: Improving Counter-poaching Through Intelligence pp. 269-290

Kristian Gustafson, Touko Sandstrom and Luke Townsend

Command Coordination and Tactical Effectiveness in Counter-insurgency Operations: Lessons from the South Korean Campaign pp. 291-315

Soul Park and Seung Joon Paik

Developing Civil Society in the Non-state Sphere: Welfare and Rights-based Organisations Associated with Ethnic Armed Groups in Myanmar pp. 316-343

Stan Jagger

A Question of ‘Government’ Control: Afghanistan DDR Programs Since 2001 pp. 344-366

Major William Selber

European Imperial Expansion, the Projection of Military Power and Colonial Insurgencies pp. 367-373

Paul B. Rich

Poets and Prophets of the Resistance: Intellectuals and the Origins of El Salvador’s Civil War pp. 374-376

Srobana Bhattacharya

Notes on Contributors pp. 377-378

The Editors

Volume 29, issue 1, 2018

The Illusion of Afghanistan’s Electoral Representative Democracy: The Cases of Afghan Presidential and National Legislative Elections pp. 1-37

Thomas H. Johnson

Beyond the Unidades de Polícia Pacificadora: Countering Comando Vermelho’s Criminal Insurgency pp. 38-67

Claudio Ramos da Cruz and David H. Ucko

Diversionary Tactics and the Ethiopia–Eritrea War (1998–2000) pp. 68-90

Charity Butcher and Makda Maru

The Prickly Thorn: A Re-evaluation of Orde Wingate and the Special Night Squads pp. 91-111

Preston Jordan Lim

Formation of Insurgent Groups: MEND and Boko Haram in Nigeria pp. 112-130

Olayinka Ajala

Looking in: External Views of the Way Forward in Thai Southern Insurgency pp. 131-140

Thomas A. Marks

Hybrid War and Its Countermeasures: A Critique of the Literature pp. 141-163

Robert Johnson

A Cursed and Fragmented Island: History and Conflict Analysis in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea pp. 164-186

Antonino Adamo

Notes on Contributors pp. 187-188

The Editors