A ground-breaking study on how natural disasters can escalate or defuse wars,
insurgencies, and other strife. Armed conflict and natural disasters have plagued the twenty …

ABSTRACT Jhumpa Lahiri's The Lowland (2013) explores effects of the 1967 Communist
Naxalbari uprising in West Bengal India. Irrespective of the glowing reviews the author …

The nature of underreporting terrorism in developing countries is often acknowledged but
poorly understood. Focusing on India, we triangulate terrorist attacks captured across three …

India is the world's tenth largest economy and possesses the world's fourth largest military.
The subcontinent houses about one-fifth of the world's population and its inhabitants are …

Since 2004, the Indian government has described the country's Maoist insurgency as a
grave threat to domestic security. A study of the sustaining dynamics behind Maoist violence …

The incidence of domestic terrorism varies dramatically across the states of India. This study
demonstrates that important state-level differences in political party systems help to explain …

Abstract After Russia and India's imposition of increasingly restrictive NGO laws in 2012 and
2014 respectively, China also passed a law that sought to target thousands of NGOs in April …

Following the 2008 terrorist attack on Mumbai-an attack which had been amply
foreshadowed by intelligence and previous, similar strikes-India's government promised …

The relationship between armed rebels and local civilians is among the least understood
aspects of insurgency. This article posits a novel theory, the rebels' resource curse, to argue …

This book explores the powerful role of ordinary people's agency in times of violent conflict.
Drawing on extensive fieldwork and a Critical Discourse Analysis, the author draws out the …