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Armed Militias of South Asia. Fundamentalists, Maoists and Separatists, edited by Laurent Gayer and Christophe Jaffrelot
There seems to be no end to the growing number of victims of civil war, terrorism, guerrilla warfare and military repression on the Indian subcontinent, despite the absence of interstate wars over the past ten years. These conflicts often involve armed paramilitary militias or insurgents of one sort or other, and it is their ideology, sociology and strategies that the contributors to this book investigate. Whether based on ideological motives -the Maoists and Naxalites in Nepal and India; or invested with a fundamentalist religious mission -the Hindu nationalist Bajrang Dal in India; the Sunni SSP in Pakistan; or Islamist militias in Bangladesh - all these movements use violence to exercise social control, challenge the authority of the state and impose their own particular worldview. Although they seek also to undermine the state, depriving it of the monopoly on legitimate violence that it supposedly holds, governments are equally adept at exploiting them to make them serve their own ends. For the authorities, these movements can be useful tools for their pursuit of both moral and social order. However delegating power to such groups for short-term political gains can be an extremely risky enterprise, as demonstrated by Indira Gandhi's patronage of the Sikh militant group that later assassinated her. Armed Militias of SouthAsia is the first comprehensive book of its sort and will be required reading for all those interested in the politics of the subcontinent and Myanmar.
The series results from a collaboration with Hurst & Co in Londres and publishes in English research works interested by the transformations of political systems and political societies. It focuses, in particular, on social movements, the role of the State, and the interaction between external and domestic factors. It is directed by Christophe Jaffrelot.
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2009
Armed Militias of South Asia. Fundamentalists, Maoists and Separatists, edited by Laurent Gayer and Christophe Jaffrelot
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OMAN. Politics and Society in the Qaboos State, by Marc Valeri
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2008
Transnational Shia Politics. Religious and Political Networks in the Gulf, by Laurence Louër
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The Politics of Chaos in the Middle East, by Olivier Roy
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2007
The Enigma of Islamist Violence, edited by Amélie Blom, Laetitia Bucaille, and Luis Martinez
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The Libyan Paradox, by Luis Martinez
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Purify and Destroy. The Political Uses of Massacre and Genocide, by Jacques Semelin
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Qigong Fever. Body, Science and Utopia in China, by David A Palmer
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Iran and the Bomb. The Abdication of International Responsibility, by Thérèse Delpech
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Cultures of Voting. The Hidden History of the Secret Ballot, edited by Romain Bertrand, Jean-Louis Briquet and Peter Pels
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To be an Arab in Israel, by Laurence Louër
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2006
Peace Operations Seen from Below. UN Missions and Local People, edited by Béatrice Pouligny
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The Resilience of the State. Democracy and the Challenges of Globalisation, edited by Samy Cohen
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2005
Revisiting Nationalism.Theories and Processes, edited by Christophe Jaffrelot and Alain Dieckhoff
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The Illusion of Cultural Identity, by Jean-François Bayart
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Revolution Unending. Afghanistan : 1979 to the Present, by Gilles Dorronsoro
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2004
Globalised Islam. The search for a new ummah, by Olivier Roy
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Privatising the State, edited by Béatrice
Hibou
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2003
Islamist Networks. The Pakistan-Afghan Connection, by Mariam Abou Zahab and Olivier Roy
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Indian's Silent Revolution. The rise of the lower castes in North India, by Christophe Jaffrelot
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The invention of a nation. Zionist Thought and the Making of Modern Israël, by Alain Dieckhoff
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2002
Japan. The Burden of Success, by Jean-Marie Bouissou
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2001
The New International Relations. Theory and Practice by Marie-Claude Smouts
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2000
The Algerian Civil War 1990-1998, by Luis Martinez
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1999
Being Modern in Iran, by Fariba Adelkhah
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