Choking off democratic channels and the resort to violence: how the political genocide of <i>Unión Patriótica</i> (UP) candidates escalated and perpetuated Colombia’s armed conflict

2024-9-5

Fight, flight, mimic: identity mimicry in conflict

2024-9-2

‘Havoc the laws of regular warfare do not sanction:’ the resort to punitive violence by British forces in Victorian small wars

2024-8-19

The killing fields of Punjab: representing the Sikh militancy in cinema

2024-8-13

The Taliban courts in Afghanistan: waging war by law <b>The Taliban courts in Afghanistan: waging war by law</b> by Adam Baczko, New York, Oxford University Press, 2023, 320 pp. index, $115.00 (Hardcover), ISBN: 9780198896777

2024-8-13

Insurgents’ legitimisation strategies: a comparison between the Afghan Taliban and Pakistani Taliban

2024-8-13

The Islamic State – Khorasan Province (ISK): an assessment of current operations

2024-8-12

Review article: South African military involvement in Rhodesia, c.1965-80

2024-8-11

Black Sea, grain, and two humanitarian corridors: unblocking Ukrainian shipping amid the Russian invasion

2024-8-1

The nature and extent of the Taliban’s involvement in the drug trade before and after the regime change (1994–2022): insights from experts

2024-7-30

Roles of gender in addressing structural inequality: assessment of Borana women’s endogenous institutional agents of gender amelioration in peace, conflict, and post-conflict settings

2024-7-30

Russia in Africa: resurgent great power or bellicose pretender? <b>Russia in Africa: resurgent great power or bellicose pretender?</b> by Samuel Ramani, London, Hurst and Co, 2023, v + 346 pp., Index. £45 (hardback), ISBN 9781787387072; £20 (paperback), ISBN 9781911723370

2024-7-26

Learning the lessons of Afghanistan?: the changing prospects of negotiations between JNIM and the Malian government

2024-7-26

The grand strategy of a non-Western small state: Sri Lanka and the LTTE during 2006-2009

2024-7-23

Subversion: from covert operations to cyber conflict <b>Subversion: from covert operations to cyber conflict</b> , by Lennart Maschmeyer, Oxford University Press, Published: 01 April 2024, 352 pp., $120.00 (Hardcover), ISBN 9780197745854

2024-7-23

Friend or Foe: militia intelligence and ethnic violence in the Lebanese Civil War <b>Friend or Foe: militia intelligence and ethnic violence in the Lebanese Civil War</b> , by Nils Hägerdal, New York, Columbia University Press, 2021, 200 pp., index, $35 (£30) (Paper), ISBN: 9780231200653; $145.00 (£121.00) (Hardcover), ISBN: 9780231200646; $34.99 (£30.00) (E-book), ISBN: 9780231553728

2024-7-15

Encounters with ISIS-affiliated women: radicalisation process, motivations, and their journey

2024-7-9

Fighting together: emotionality, fusion, and psychological kinship in the Syrian civil war

2024-7-7

African military politics in the Sahel: regional organizations and international politics <b>African military politics in the Sahel: regional organizations and international politics</b> , by Katharina P. W. Döring, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2023, 256 pp., index, $110.00 (Hardcover), ISBN 9781009362245

2024-7-7

Multilateral counterinsurgency in East Africa

2024-7-2

The uncertain future of Afghanistan: terrorism, reconstruction, and great-power rivalry <b>The uncertain future of Afghanistan: terrorism, reconstruction, and great-power rivalry</b> , edited by Nian Peng, Khalid Rahman, Singapore, Springer, Indo-Pacific Focus series, 2024, 207 pp., index, $ 139.99 (£ 110.44) (Hardcover), ISBN 978-981-97-2408-6

2024-7-2

Non-state campaigning: Islamic State’s guerrilla warfare doctrine

2024-7-1

Women, extremism and repression under Taliban 2.0 in Afghanistan: beyond the good

2024-6-18

Unheard voices: foreign journalists’ coverage of vietnamese prisoners during the American War in Vietnam

2024-6-17

Contemporary wars and conflicts over land and water in africa <b>Contemporary wars and conflicts over land and water in africa</b> , by Carlson Anyangwe, Lanham, Maryland, Lexington Books, 2022, 327 pp., index, $130 (£100.00) (Hardcover), ISBN 978-1-66691-036-0; $42.99 (£35.00) (Paperback), ISBN 978-1-66691-038-4; $40.50 (£30.00) (eBook), ISBN 978-1-66691-037-7

2024-6-10

Conflict and democratization in Afghanistan

2024-6-10

Repress, coopt, persuade? Russia’s counterinsurgency warfare from Kabul to Kyiv

2024-5-22

An unwritten future: realism and uncertainty in world politicsAn unwritten future: realism and uncertainty in world politics, by Jonathan Kirshner, Princeton and Oxford, Princeton University Press, 2022, xiii + 239 pp., Index, (Hb), ISBN 978-0-691-16677-3; £30 (e-book), ISBN 978-0-691-23312-3

2024-5-17

Conditions for enduring peace: power-sharing and amnesty provisions

2024-5-15

Elite Coalitions and Rebel Control in Northern Côte d’Ivoire

2024-5-14

Mortal ‘mistakes’, fatal consequences: understanding Nigeria’s mis-targeted counter-insurgency airstrike fatalities

2024-5-6

The Israel-Hamas conflict: ‘You might not be interested in attrition, but attrition is interested in you’

2024-5-1

Blue Helmet Bureaucrats: United Nations Peacekeeping and the reinvention of colonialism, 1945–1971 <b>Blue Helmet Bureaucrats: United Nations Peacekeeping and the reinvention of colonialism, 1945–1971</b> , by Margot Tudor, New Delhi, Cambridge University Press, 2023, 310 pp., ₹8548 (Hardback), ISBN 978-1-009-26492-1

2024-4-29

A Slow Reckoning: the USSR, the Afghan communists, and Islam <b>A Slow Reckoning: the USSR, the Afghan communists, and Islam</b> , by Vassily Klimentov, New York, Northern Illinois University Press [Imprint of Cornell University Press], 2024, 287 pp., index, $54.95 (Hardcover), ISBN 1501773801

2024-4-29

Selling security to Africa: Private Military and Security Companies (PMSCs) and the fate of African intrastate security

2024-4-24

South America: small wars, insurgencies &amp; aerial acquisition programs

2024-4-24

The troubled triangle: US–Pakistan relations under the Taliban’s shadow <b>The troubled triangle: US–Pakistan relations under the Taliban’s shadow</b> , by Zafar Iqbal Yousafzai, New York, Routledge, 2022, 192 pp., £120.00 (Hardback), ISBN: 978-0-36769-310-7

2024-4-15

Uncovering the sources of revolutionary violence: the case of Colombia’s National Front (1958-1964)

2024-4-12

Azerbaijan’s power plays: analyzing Baku’s policy towards Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh after 2020

2024-4-11

‘Afghanistan’—the transnational connection between Haqqani Network and the Arab World

2024-4-11

Review essay: proxy warfare and mercenaries <b>Proxy Wars from a Global Perspective: Non-State Actors and Armed Conflicts</b> , edited by Pawel Bernat, Cüneyt Gürer, and Cyprian Aleksander Kozera, New York, Bloomsbury Academic, 2024, 258 pp., index, $120.00 cloth, ISBN: 1350369284. <b>The Mercenary: An Instrument of State Coercion</b> , Christopher Kinsey, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2023, 289 pp., index, $124 (cloth), 019198373X, $110 (ebook), 9780191983733

2024-4-8

Armed opposition to the Stroessner regime in Paraguay: a review article

2024-4-1

The application of ‘Small Wars’ theory and experience by the British Army in Macedonia during the First World War

2024-3-29

Making the world safe for empire? <b>Empires of Eurasia: how imperial legacies shape international security</b> , by Jeffrey Mankoff, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2022, xi + 275 pp., £30 (hardback), Index, ISBN 978-0-300—24825-8

2024-3-24

State survival vs leaders’ survival: how ethnic conflicts affect a state’s international alignment behavior?

2024-3-19

Local circumstances matter: the story of two peasant resistances in northwestern Ethiopia from 1974 to 1991

2024-3-9

Prima Donnas in Kevlar zones. Challenges to the Unconventional Warfare efforts of the U.S. Special Forces during Operation Enduring Freedom

2024-3-9

The impact of precision strike technology on the warfare of non-state armed groups: case studies on Daesh and the Houthis

2024-3-8

Mughal amphibious counterinsurgency in the Bay of Bengal’s hinterland: 1572-1612

2024-3-5

Urban warfare in the middle East: the battle of Mosul and the operations in Syria

2024-3-4