1st Edition
Fighting and Negotiating with Armed Groups The Difficulty of Securing Strategic Outcomes
By Samir Puri
Copyright 2016
170 Pages
by
Routledge
170 Pages
by
Routledge
Also available as eBook on:
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... Read more
Introduction
1. The difficulties of accommodating or eliminating armed groups
2. Struggling to move from military stalemate to negotiations
3. The ruthless pragmatism of fighting and talking to be selective and deceptive
4. When partnerships of states confront armed groups
5. The lopsided strategies of very weak or very strong states
Conclusion
Biography
Samir Puri lectures in War Studies at King’s College London. He previously worked for the Foreign Office (2009-15), where his assignments included counter terrorism strategy and a number of peace processes. He started his career as a defence analyst at RAND (2006-09).
