The Counter-Insurgent State

This book brings together several scholars to examine the relationship between guerrilla insurgencies and state building. In essays covering such societies as Mozambique, Algeria, Peru, Malaysia and Sri Lanka the authors show that the rise of guerrilla insurgency can lead states to develop far-reaching programmes of social and economic modernisation or else in some cases to disintegrate from within if the challenge of modernisation proves to be beyond their capacities. The book argues that as the last phase of colonial modernisation of developing states has finished insurgencies increasingly threaten the cohesion of less developed states in a global order in which superpower patronage has largely ended.

Inhalt
Notes on the Contributors - List of Abbreviations - Introduction; P.B.Rich & R.Stubbs - State Building, Communist Insurgency and Cacique Politics in the Philippines; P.N.Abinales - The Malayan Emergency and the Development of the Malaysian State; R.Stubbs - Counter Insurgency and the State in Modern Sri Lanka; B.Matthews - Insurgency, Revolution and the Crises of the Algerian State; P.B.Rich - A Victim of Modernity: Explaining the War in Mozambique; T.Young - State Development and Counter Insurgency in Peru; P.Mauceri - Counter Insurgency in Northern Ireland and the Crisis of the British State; P.Dixon - Index