ON SEPTEMBER 12, 1946, shortly after taking office as minister for external affairs in India's
pre-independence cabinet, Jawaharlal Nehru sent a long letter to the Commander in Chief …

In the past two decades, many have posited a correlation between the spread of
globalization and the decline of the nation-state. In the realm of national security, advocates …

This book deals with two significant issues: the peculiar and paradoxical question of why
regular armies, better suited to fighting conventional high-intensity wars, adopt inappropriate …

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 …

This edited volume focuses on India's experiences waging counterinsurgency campaigns
since its independence in 1947. Filling a clear gap in the literature, the book traces and …

Which factors drive the onset of genocidal violence? While the previous literature identified
several important influences, states' military capabilities for conducting mass-killings and the …

This book, based on extensive field research, examines the Indian state's response to the
multiple insurgencies that have occurred since independence in 1947. In reacting to these …

The Indian Army, a force trained primarily for conventional warfare, has been engaged in
internal counter-insurgency operations since the 1950s. Despite such a long innings on a …

With an increased focus on the role of pro-government militias in understanding intra-state
conflict, scholars have primarily argued that states use militias as a proxy of the government …

The author begins with the premise that contemporary terrorism has emerged as a fully
globalized phenomenon with increasingly destructive capacities. She traces the origins of …