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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 27 August 2019
- ISBN 9780190929978
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages240 pages
- Size 231x155x15 mm
- Weight 340 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 9 0
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Short description:
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 alliances with criminals and ex-rebels, this book reveals configurations of local power and actors' interests that result in distinct alliance patterns and demonstrates the framework's applicability in South Asia and beyond.
MoreLong description:
In Gambling with Violence, Yelena Biberman tackles a global problem that is particularly consequential for Pakistan and India: state outsourcing of violence to ordinary civilians, criminals, and ex-insurgents. Why would these countries gamble with their own national security by outsourcing violence - arming nonstate actors inside their own borders? Drawing on over 200 interviews, archival research, and fieldwork conducted across Asia, Europe, and North America, Biberman introduces the "balance-of-interests" thesis to deepen our understanding of state-nonstate alliances in civil war. This framework centers on the distribution of power during war and shows how various combinations of interests result in distinct types of coalitions. Incorporating case studies of civil war and counterinsurgency, her book sheds light on how militias, alliances, and South Asian security connect today.
In her book Gambling with Violence: State Outsourcing of War in Pakistan and India, Yelena Biberman offers a concise theory for understanding state-nonstate alliance behavior during civil wars... The admirable breadth and depth of qualitative research across three countries of the South Asian subcontinent make the book an important contribution to understanding the geopolitics of internal conflict in South Asia.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
CHAPTER 1: Introduction
CHAPTER 2: State-Nonstate Alliances in Civil War: A New Balance-of-Interests Theory
CHAPTER 3: Saving the House of Islam: Pakistan's "Volunteers" in the War of 1971
CHAPTER 4 "Guns Plus Interest:" Renegades and Villagers in India's Kashmir War
CHAPTER 5: Tribal "Awakenings" in Pakistan and India
CHAPTER 6: All the State's Proxies in Turkey and Russia
CHAPTER 7: Conclusion
Notes
Index
