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Fighting and negotiating with armed groups : the difficulty of securing strategic outcomes / Samir Puri.

By: Puri, Samir, 1981- [author.].
Series: [Adelphi paper]. Adelphi (Series) (International Institute for Strategic Studies): 459.Publisher: Abingdon, UK ; New York, USA : Routledge, for the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), 2016Description: 168 pages ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9781138238565.Subject(s): REGIONAL CONFLICTS | INTERNATIONAL SECURITY | TERRORISM | CONFILICT | INTERNATIONAL SECURITY | ARMED CONFLICTS | CIVILIAN PERSONS
Contents:
Chapter One The difficulties of accommodating or eliminating armed groups Northern Ireland: the UK politicises its security response Sri Lanka: destroying the LITE after years of war and talks Delivering a decisive outcome against armed groups Chapter Two juggling to move from military stalemate to negotiations Colombia: five decades of tilting between fighting and talking 42 Turkey: belatedly opening a political track with the PKK 52 Chasing political settlements with armed groups 63 Chapter Three fhe ruthless pragmatism of being selective and deceptive Russia: playing politics and waging war to quell Chechnya's rebellion Pakistan: fighting and talking to Islamist militants since 9/11 80 Do these policies arise from cunnirt' ? 92 Chapter Four When partnerships of states confront armed groups Afghanistan: neither defeating nor reconciling with the Taliban 99 Iraq: as the armed-group challenge ends, another begins 109 Engaging armed groups through partnerships 119 Chapter Five 'he lopsided strategies of very weak or very strong states The DRC a weak state forged from armed groups Israel's perpetual security dilemma in the Palestinian territories 137
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chapter One
The difficulties of accommodating or eliminating armed groups Northern Ireland: the UK politicises its security response Sri Lanka: destroying the LITE after years of war and talks Delivering a decisive outcome against armed groups
Chapter Two
juggling to move from military stalemate to negotiations Colombia: five decades of tilting between fighting and talking 42 Turkey: belatedly opening a political track with the PKK 52 Chasing political settlements with armed groups 63
Chapter Three
fhe ruthless pragmatism of being selective and deceptive Russia: playing politics and waging war to quell Chechnya's rebellion Pakistan: fighting and talking to Islamist militants since 9/11 80 Do these policies arise from cunnirt' ? 92
Chapter Four
When partnerships of states confront armed groups Afghanistan: neither defeating nor reconciling with the Taliban 99 Iraq: as the armed-group challenge ends, another begins 109 Engaging armed groups through partnerships 119
Chapter Five
'he lopsided strategies of very weak or very strong states The DRC a weak state forged from armed groups Israel's perpetual security dilemma in the Palestinian territories 137

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