Tag: counter-insurgency

Workshop Call for papers – The University of Glasgow, 22-23 November 2018

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The Political Economy of Insurgency-Smugglers, Black Markets, and Proxy Forces The Understanding Insurgencies Network will be holding its seventh workshop at the University of Glasgow on 22-23 November 2018. The focus of the workshop will be on the political economy of insurgency and counter-insurgency. The organisers invite proposals for 20 minutes papers that address one …

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Serge Chakhotin’s The Rape of the Masses (1939): the development of European propaganda c.1914-1960 and the Algerian War of Independence

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In 2011 Neil MacMaster,  University of East Anglia (UK) wrote a detailed article on the influence of the Russian scientist Serge Chakhotin on the development of psychological warfare. This remains unpublished, however you can read it in full with this link Russian scientist Serge Chakhotin Extract In Paris on the eve of the Second World War …

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Comparing Insurgencies – Leiden workshop, 13 & 14 July 2017

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Hosted by our colleagues at the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies, the fourth workshop in the Understanding Insurgencies series convened at the University of Leiden on 13-14 July 2017. Organised around the theme of recruitment to insurgent groups and counter-insurgent forces, the workshop cohered around question of how, why, and when …

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‘Recruitment for insurgency and counterinsurgency’: Leiden, 13–14 July 2017

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Some photographs taken at the Leiden Workshop (Left to right) Peter Keppy (NIOD Amsterdam), Bart Luttikhuis (Leiden University) and Abdul Wahid (KITLV): ‘Violence strikes root: why vigilantism became central to Indonesian politics, 1943–1955’ Mathilde von Bulow (Glasgow): ‘External sanctuaries and insurgent recruitment: the FLN in West Germany’ Keynote speaker, Will Reno (Northwestern), on ‘Are we …

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Workshop Programme Leiden 13-14 July 2017

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Recruitment for insurgency and counterinsurgency   Thursday, 13 July 2017 10.20 – 10.40: Tea/coffee 10.40 – 11.00: Welcome remarks 11.00 – 12.30: Insurgent recruitment Bart Luttikhuis (Leiden University), Peter Keppy (NIOD Amsterdam) and Abdul Wahid (KITLV Leiden): Violence strikes root, why vigilantism became central to Indonesian politics 1943-1955 Mathilde von Bulow (Glasgow): External sanctuaries and …

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Call for papers – Amnesty to Counter Insurgency

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AMNESTY TO COUNTER INSURGENCY: GLOBAL COMPARISONS FROM THE COLONIAL CONTEXT, 1920-2000 Workshop Global History & Culture Centre, University of Warwick 14-15 June 2018 This workshop is part of a Leverhulme Trust Research Network on Understanding Insurgencies: Resonances from the Colonial Past. Led by the University of Exeter’s Centre for War, State and Society, other collaborators …

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Workshop Programme Oxford 16-17 March 2017

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16 March 2017 10.20 – 10.40: Tea/coffee 10.30 – 11.00: Welcome remarks 11.00 – 12.30: Colonial Africa James McDougall (Oxford) – Colonial Violence and Counter-insurgency in 19th and 20th Century Africa Jonathan Krause (Oxford) – Anticolonial Uprisings in the French Empire in 1916-7 Chair: Stacey Hynd (Exeter) 12.30 – 13.30: Lunch 13.30 – 15.00: Comparing …

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December Workshop in Paris

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December Workshop in Paris

Leverhulme Trust network: Understanding Insurgencies: Resonances from the Colonial Past Paris Research Workshop, December 2016 Hosted by Emmanuel Blanchard of the Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin/Sciences Po Saint-Germain, the second Leverhulme Trust workshop on Understanding Insurgencies was held in Paris on 15-16 December 2016. The workshop was themed around the issues of laws of war and targets …

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Introducing our collection of papers

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Introducing our collection of papers

Following September’s inaugural network meeting in Exeter I now have a link to the introduction, written by Dan Branch and myself, to the wider collection of papers. Anderson, David M. “Making the loyalist bargain: surrender, amnesty, and impunity in Kenya’s decolonization, 1952-63.” International History Review 39, i (2017): in press. Please click on the link …

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Workshop paper

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Workshop paper

Following September’s inaugural network meeting in Exeter, I can now give you a free download of the paper I presented at that workshop. Anderson, David M. and Daniel Branch. “Allies at the end of empire: loyalists, nationalists and the Cold War, 1945-76.” International History Review 39, i (2017): in press. Please click on the link …

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