Description
The lethality of conflicts between insurgent groups and counter-insurgent security forces has risen markedly since the Second World War just as those of conventional, or inter-state wars have declined. For several decades, conflicts within states rather than between them have been the prevalent form of organised political violence worldwide. Recent conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria have fired interest in colonial experiences of rebellion, while current western interventions in sub-Saharan Africa have prompted accusations of 'militarist humanitarianism'. Yet, despite mounting interest in counter-insurgency and empire, comparative investigation of colonial responses to insurrection and civil disorder is sparse. Some scholars have written of a 'golden age of counter-insurgency', which began with Britain's declaration of a Malayan Emergency in 1948 and ended with the withdrawal of US ground troops from Vietnam in 1973. It is with this period, if not with any presumed 'golden age' that this volume is concerned. This Handbook connects ideas about contested decolonization and the insurgencies that inspired it with an analysis of patterns and singularities in the conflicts that precipitated the collapse of overseas empires. It attempts a systematic study of the global effects of organized anti-colonial violence in Asia and Africa. The objective is to reconceptualize late colonial violence in the European overseas empires by exploring its distinctive character and the globalizing processes underpinning it.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: Revisiting the Violent Collapse of Empires
- Approaches to Insurgent and Counter-Insurgent Violence
- 1: Jonathan Krause and Miles Larmer: Beyond the State/Rebel Dichotomy in Twentieth Century African Warfare
- 2: Alex Marshall: Counterinsurgency and the Russian 'Way of War'
- 3: Gemma Clark: Fire as Revolution and Repression: Revolutionary Ireland in Perspective
- 4: Peter Keppy, Abdul Wahid, and Bart Luttikhuis: Insurgencies in early post-colonial Indonesia
- 5: Jeremy Kuzmarov: Humanitarian Illusions: American Counterinsurgency, From the Indians Wars to the Global War on Terror
- 6: Rachel Kowalski: Sources, Methods, and the Violence of Insurgency in Northern Ireland
- 'Rules of the game': Law, Doctrine, and Propaganda
- 7: Martin Thomas: Decolonization's Wars and the Civilianization of Violence
- 8: Matthew Hughes: The Architecture of Colonial Control: Britain's Pacification of the Arab Revolt in Palestine, 1936-1939
- 9: Christiaan Harinck: Late colonial counterinsurgency as an intellectual challenge: the development of Dutch tactical doctrine during the Indonesian War, 1945-1949
- 10: Boyd van Dijk: The Geneva Conventions, Insurgency, and Decolonization
- 11: Stacey Hynd: 'More an Inspiration than a Deterrent'? Capital Punishment and British Colonial Counter-Insurgency, c. 1916-73
- 12: Brian Drohan: Sinning Quietly: Law and Human Rights in British Colonial Counter-Insurgency
- 13: Tony Craig: Internment, imprisonment, interrogation, and resistance in low intensity conflict. Carceral warfare and republican paramilitaries in Northern Ireland 1968-c. 1988
- Affiliations: Motivation and Mobilization
- 14: Gajendra Singh: The Place of Revolutionary Violence in India, 1905-1947: From Aberrant Nationalisms to the Nationalist Mainstream
- 15: Kent Fedorowich and Ian van der Waag: The Afrikaner Rebellion 1914-15: Internal Conflict and the Counterinsurgency Campaign
- 16: Daniel Branch: Unwanted Friends: Loyalty and Citizenship in Britain's Imperial Wars, 1899-1960
- 17: Roel Frakking: 'Independence or Death'? Rank and File Recruitment, Ideology, and Desertion during the Wars of Decolonization in Indonesia and Malaysia, ca. 1945-1960
- 18: Pierre Asselin: Hanoi's National Liberation Strategy, 1954-1975
- 19: Emily Bridger: Gender, Mobilisation, and Insurgency in South Africa: Young Comrades in the 1980s Township Uprisings
- 20: Neil Macmaster: Guns, Grain, and Gold: the peasant base of Algerian guerrilla logistics, c.1954-1957
- 21: Saphia Arezki: The insurgent strategies of the ALN in Algeria (1954-1962)
- 22: Edward Burke and Huw Bennett: The Aden Protectorate Levies, Counter-insurgency, and the Loyalist Bargain in South Arabia, 1951-1957
- Development and Population Control
- 23: Moritz Feichtinger: Strategic Resettlement: Population Removal and Coercive Development in Late Colonial Counter-Insurgency
- 24: Andreas Stucki: Gendering Development and Social Control in the Iberian Empires in Africa, 1950s-1970s
- 25: Kate Bruce-Lockhart and Bethany Rebisz: Discourses of Development and Practices of Punishment: Britain's Gendered Counter-Insurgency Strategy in Colonial Kenya
- 26: Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo and José Pedro Monteiro: The labours of (in)security in Portuguese late colonialism
- 27: Claudia Castello: (Un)settling late colonial Niassa, Mozambique (1966-1974): social knowledge, development, and counter-insurgency
- 28: Philip J. Havik: Mass Medicine, Disease Control, and Conflict: Collective Health Security During Late Colonialism in Africa
- 29: Phi-Vân Nguyen: Refugees in Violent Decolonizations
- 30: Christian Gerlach: Indonesian strategic resettlement and development policies in East Timor
- Beyond Borders: Transnational Dimensions
- 31: Aditya Kiran Kakati: Limits of sovereignty: developing blank spaces across Asian borders after the Second World War
- 32: Christopher Goscha: The Hunger General: Economic Warfare during the Indochina War
- 33: Elie Tenenbaum: A community of mavericks: circulating counterinsurgency knowledge in the West (1945-1975)
- 34: Mathilde von Bülow: Exile, Safe Havens, and Rear Bases: External Sanctuaries and the Transnational Dimension of Late Colonial Insurgencies and Counter-insurgencies
- 35: Aaron Edwards: Dark Networks and Conflict Transformation in Northern Ireland
- Ending Insurgencies and the Afterlives of Violent Decolonisation
- 36: Maria Hadjiathanasiou: The Cyprus Revolt and the 'Prickly Subject' of Truces
- 37: Raphaëlle Branche: To forget and remember: the paradoxical legacy of French military actions in Algeria
- 38: Gareth Curless: Violence and (Dis)Order in the Caribbean PostColony: Guyana and Jamaica
