Counterinsurgency

Review – Mobility, Mobilization, and Counter/Insurgency

Bintu Zahara Sakor • Dec 19 2022 • Features

Agbiboa presents a paradigm that highlights the overlooked role played by mobilities and provides an important contribution for policymakers and researchers of conflict.

Afghanistan: A Subaltern State Suffering from Terrorism

Haluk Karadag • Sep 22 2017 • Articles

The process of eliminating the influence of Taliban and other groups in Afghanistan remains slow, as the country’s economic and political development is still chaotic.

Interview – William I. Robinson

E-International Relations • Sep 16 2017 • Features

Professor Robinson answers questions on his theory of global capitalism, the future of Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution, and the role of the BRICS in world order.

Interview – Holger Stritzel

E-International Relations • Aug 2 2017 • Features

Dr Stritzel discusses what it means to be “critical”, assesses developments in securitization studies, and gives some advice for young Critical Security Studies scholars.

Interview – Robert J. Bunker

E-International Relations • May 20 2016 • Features

Robert J. Bunker discusses the greatest lessons learned from counterinsurgency, forms of insurgencies, and what is being done to counter Latin American cartels and gangs.

The Maywand District Murders: Violence, Vulnerability and Desecrating the Body

Thomas Gregory • Mar 8 2016 • Articles

The extraordinary level of pain and suffering that was inflicted on the body of Gul Mudin and others speaks to the peculiar relationship between violence and the body.

Review – Cooperation and Drug Polices in the Americas

Juan Carlos Garzón-Vergara • Feb 25 2016 • Features

A title that offers valuable lessons for scholars and practitioners, challenging traditional views about U.S. cooperation and highlighting the inertia of current policy.

Review – Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism in Africa

Stephen A. Emerson • Feb 18 2016 • Features

A valuable title that dissects and analyzes the complex phenomenon that is African terrorism and explains how certain state responses have been counter-productive.

Interview – Susan Spronk

E-International Relations • Jan 13 2016 • Features

Professor Spronk discusses Latin American ’21st Century Socialism’, reflects on struggles against water privatization, and assesses the role of the BRICS in world order.

Interview – Nori Katagiri

E-International Relations • Dec 5 2015 • Features

Dr. Katagiri discusses his latest book on insurgencies, military strategies and cooperation and Japanese-American perceptions on security, politics and the world.