Fighting and Negotiating with Armed Groups by Samir Puri
What constitutes an effective and realistic strategy for dealing with non-state armed groups? This question has bedevilled states the world over. From Colombia and FARC, Turkey and the PKK, the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and the persistent insurgency in Iraq – the governments concerned struggle to either fight or negotiate their way to an end.
Fighting armed groups is an uncertain business, and so is negotiating. Doing both alternately, concurrently or selectively, is highly demanding. This book develops a framework to help analysts and policymakers understand the challenges of using a combination of coercion and diplomacy in dealing with armed groups. It considers which complexities have proved most inhibiting, and which have been worked around. What are the obvious traps that states fall into? What appear to be the smarter moves?
Thinking in terms or ‘military’ or ‘political’ solutions is unhelpful – to be genuinely strategic, a response must concern itself with managing the mix. Ten examples from around the world are worked through to examine this theme. The net is cast wide purposefully, so that the lessons for strategy can be made explicit, rather than lost amid a bloody contemporary history of wars involving armed groups.
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Iraq – From War to a New Authoritarianism
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Building Peace After War
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Changing the Narrative
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Everyone Loses
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India and the Rebalancing of Asia
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Evaluating Japan’s New Grand Strategy
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Yemen and the Politics of Permanent Crisis
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Asia’s New Geopolitics
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China’s Cyber Power
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Strategy and Grand Strategy
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Climate Conflict
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The Taming of Scarcity and the Problems of Plenty
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Transforming Pakistan
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Japan and the IISS
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French Arms Exports
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Japan's Remilitarisation
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Ending Wars, Consolidating Peace
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Contemporary Piracy and Maritime Terrorism
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Deterrence During Disarmament
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Syria under Bashar al-Asad
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Harsh Lessons
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Uncertain Future
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The Responsibility to Defend
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Iraq at the Crossroads
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The Iranian Nuclear Crisis
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The Power of Currencies and Currencies of Power
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No Exit
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Syria’s Uprising and the Fracturing of the Levant
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China's Strong Arm
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Reshaping Russia
- The Rise of Economic Statecraft
- The Derisking Race
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Weary Policeman
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Towards a Brave New Arms Industry?
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European Military Crisis Management
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Food Security in Asia
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Globalisation and Insecurity in the Twenty-First Century
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Weapons of Mass Destruction and International Order
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Reshaping Defence Diplomacy
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Private Armies and Military Intervention
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The Ties that Divide
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Iran under Ahmadinejad
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Middle Eastern Security, the US Pivot and the Rise of ISIS
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Developing the Mekong
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The United States and European Security
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Contending with American Exceptionalism
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781138238565 |
| ISBN 10 | 1138238562 |
| Title | Fighting and Negotiating with Armed Groups |
| Author | Samir Puri |
| Series | Adelphi Series |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Year published | 2019-01-11 |
| Number of pages | 170 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |