Waterman, A orcid.org/0000-0002-7117-3473 (2017) Compressing Politics in Counterinsurgency (COIN): Implications for COIN Theory from India’s Northeast. Strategic Analysis, 41 (5). pp. 447-463. ISSN 0970-0161
Abstract
Counterinsurgency (COIN) has long been recognised as a political phenomenon, but current theoretical understandings of politics in COIN reflect ideal types, overlooking the depth and complexity of the politics of insurgency and COIN. Drawing from India’s experience in its northeastern region, this article argues that COIN theory overlooks the political agency and multiplicity of actors, as well as overlooking the fundamentally political scope of interactions that take place between them. It calls upon COIN theorists to begin to map out this complex picture by urging greater integration between academics and practitioners studying COIN and theoretical inputs from wider academic disciplines.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2017 Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses. This is an author produced version of a paper published in Strategic Analysis. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Politics & International Studies (POLIS) (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 18 Feb 2020 14:04 |
Last Modified: | 18 Feb 2020 14:04 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/09700161.2017.1343236 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:157279 |