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Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life

Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq

Histories of the Hanged. Britain's Dirty War in Kenya and the End of Empire

1. A 'happy combination of clemency with firmness'. The small wars prologue 2. The road from Sedan 3. The paroxysms of imperial might in the shadow of the Great War 4. From Tipperary to Tel Aviv: British counterinsurgency in the shadow of World War II 5. From small wars to La Guerre Subversive. The radicalization and collapse of French counterinsurgency 6. Vietnam, counterinsurgency, and the American way of war 7. 'A conspiracy of heroes' - revolution and counterinsurgency in Latin America 8. Building the 'most successful counterinsurgency school' - COIN as the British way of war 9. Britain's thirty years' war in Northern Ireland 10. Vietnam with a happy ending - Iraq and 'The Surge' 11. Conclusion Bibliography.

Counterinsurgency: Exposing the Myths of the New Way of War

Over the last few years, an emergent body of International Relations scholarship has taken an interest in the rise of global cities and the challenges they bring to existing geographies of power. I...

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The fire this time: Grenfell, racial capitalism and the urbanisation of empire:

This article introduces this special issue of The Journal of Strategic Studies by discussing the British model of counter-insurgency. General (later Field Marshal) Sir Gerald Templer associated the phrase ‘hearts and minds’ with Britain's apparently successful counter-insurgency campaign in Malaya (1948–60). The phrase ‘hearts and minds’ is generally associated with a less coercive approach to counter-insurgency which emphasises the importance of using ‘minimum force’ in order to win the ‘hearts and minds’ of the people. This article argues that the phrase ‘hearts and minds’ does not accurately describe Britain's highly coercive campaign in Malaya. The British approach in Malaya did involve high levels of force, was not fought within the law and led to abuses of human rights. Britain's counter-insurgency campaign in Northern Ireland did not deploy the same levels of coercion that were used in Malaya but, nevertheless, considerable levels of coercion were used which did not succeed in winning the ...

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‘Hearts and Minds’? British Counter-Insurgency from Malaya to Iraq

This article exposes some of the problems of ‘classical’ British ‘hearts and minds’ counter-insurgency theory of the sixties by applying it to the Northern Ireland conflict. The four requirements of counter-insurgency theory were: demonstrating ‘political will’ to defeat the insurgents as the key to victory; the importance of ‘the battle for hearts and minds’ of the affected population; ‘police primacy’ over the army in defeating insurgents; and the importance of civil-military coordination to bring together all the elements of a successful counter-insurgency campaign. Five problems are identified with ‘classical’ counter-insurgency theory. First, counter-insurgency theory emphasises the role of the government in defeating insurgency but does not draw attention to the tensions this can create between the political and military elites and the possible consequences for democracy. Second, the theory is found to be ambiguous and open to highly divergent interpretations, in particular on the use of fo...

‘Hearts and Minds’? British Counter-Insurgency Strategy in Northern Ireland

. This article presents a (critical realist) constructivist critique of both consociational and civil society/transformationist approaches and their crude understandings of politics and the prospects for political change. Consociationalism's primordialist or essentialist foundation leads it towards a world-weary, pessimistic, conservative realism about how far ‘divided societies’ may be transformed. Advocates of the civil society approach, in contrast, take an instrumentalist view of identity and are optimistic that a radical transformation can be achieved by mobilising the people against ‘hard-line’ political representatives. The constructivist approach can provide a framework in which a more complex and nuanced understanding of identities is possible. This better equips us for understanding the prospects of bringing about desirable political change. The first part of this article is a critique of Nagle and Clancy's consociationalism. The second part provides a brief outline of a constructivist critique of both the consociational and civil society understandings of politics and their contribution to understanding the politics of managing conflict.

The politics of conflict: a constructivist critique of consociational and civil society theories

Neo-conservatives and liberal interventionists subscribe to the idealistic belief that external powers can successfully re-engineer states into Western capitalist democracies. Consociationalism is ...

Is Consociational Theory the Answer to Global Conflict? From the Netherlands to Northern Ireland and Iraq

Since 11 September 2001, the religious dimension of conflict has been the focus of increasing attention. In The Clash of Civilizations, Huntington has identified the West in religious—cultural terms, as Christian with a dominant democratic culture emphasizing tolerance, moderation and consensus. The persistence of conflict in Northern Ireland among `White' Protestant and Catholic Christians undermines this simplistic argument and demands a more subtle understanding of the role of religion and fundamentalism in contemporary conflict. Modernization theory — which is echoed among some theorists of globalization — had predicted the declining importance of religion as the world became industrialized and increasingly interconnected. This is echoed by those who argue that the Northern Ireland conflict is `ethno-national' and dismiss the role of religion. On the other hand, others have claimed that the conflict is religious and stress the role of Protestant fundamentalism. This article draws on new evidence from ...

Paul Dixon

Papers

‘Hearts and Minds’? British Counter-Insurgency from Malaya to Iraq

‘Hearts and Minds’? British Counter-Insurgency Strategy in Northern Ireland

The politics of conflict: a constructivist critique of consociational and civil society theories

Is Consociational Theory the Answer to Global Conflict? From the Netherlands to Northern Ireland and Iraq

Religion, Pragmatic Fundamentalism and the Transformation of the Northern Ireland Conflict*