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1 online resource |
| Series |
Modern South Asia series |
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Modern South Asia series.
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| Contents |
Introduction -- State-nonstate alliances in civil war: a new balance-of-interests theory -- Saving the house of Islam: Pakistan's 'volunteers' in the war of 1971 -- 'Guns plus interest': renegades and villagers in India's Kashmir war -- Tribal 'awakenings' in Pakistan and India -- All the state's proxies in Turkey and Russia -- Conclusion |
| Summary |
Gambling with Violence tackles a global problem that is particularly consequential for Pakistan and India: state outsourcing of violence to ordinary civilians, criminals, and ex-insurgents. Drawing on over 200 interviews, archival research, and fieldwork conducted in Islamabad, Srinagar, New Delhi, Dhaka, Diyarbakir, Ankara, Moscow, London, and Washington, D.C., this book introduces the "balance-of-interests" thesis to deepen our understanding of state-nonstate alliances in civil war. Incorporating international case studies of previously underexplored conduct and little-known governmental a |
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Counterinsurgency -- Pakistan -- Pāṭa
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Counterinsurgency -- India
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Non-state actors (International relations) -- South Asia
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Civil war -- South Asia
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Alliances.
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HISTORY -- Military -- Other.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Military Science.
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Alliances
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Civil war
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Counterinsurgency
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Non-state actors (International relations)
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Politics and government
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| SUBJECT |
South Asia -- Politics and government
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| Subject |
India
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South Asia
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780190930004 |
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0190930004 |
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9780190929985 |
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0190929987 |
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