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The Global Threat of Terror
Ideological, Material and Political Linkages
2002 ISBN 81-87553-11-1
pp 268
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The Global Threat of Terror: Ideological, Material and Political
Linkages focuses on the gravest of contemporary threats, not only
to individual nations and the civilized world, but to the long-term
survival of the human race itself. Rejecting the moral ambivalence
of the past that has allowed terrorism to grow under the active
sponsorship or the benign indifference of a majority of the world's
nations, this volume explores the complex web of terror that has
established itself across the globe. Arguing that if democracies
are to survive, they must learn to protect and arm themselves
agaisnt this greatest of modern scourges, it brings specialists
from a wide range of disciplines and countries to focus on the
institutional structures, processes and tools that will be necessary
for te defence of freedom against the catastrophic threat of terror.
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THE ANTI-TERRORISM HANDBOOK
A Practical Guide to Counter Action Planning & Operations
for Individuals & Government
Author: KARL A SEHAR, Ph.D
1990 ISBN 81 7062 132 1
pp 210
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FAULTLINES: Volume I
Editor: K P S Gill
1999 ISSN 0972-1290
pp142
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Faultlines focuses on various sources and aspects of existing
and emerging conflict in the Indian sub-continent. Terrorism and
low-intensity wars, communal, caste, and other sectarian strife,
political violence, organised crime, policing, the criminal justice
system and human rights constitute the central focus of the journal.
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FAULTLINES: Volume II
Editor: K P S Gill
1999 ISBN 81 87553 01 4
pp 179
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Is the undeclared war in Kargil over, or has it just begun? And
within the context of the tides of violence that constantly sweep
across South Asia, was this a major crisis, or just a minor skirmish?
Faultlines takes an analytical look at some of the new confrontations
in the sub-continent, and at others that have persisted for decades.
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FAULTLINES: Volume III
Editor: K P S Gill
1999 ISBN 81 87553 02 2
pp181
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General Parvez Musharraf's coup in Pakistan is a clear indication
that South Asia will remain an areas of instability in the world,
with its epicentre in India's volatile and irresponsible neighbour.
This makes the task of understanding existing and emerging sources
of strife in the region all the more urgent.
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FAULTLINES:VolumeIV
Editor: K P S Gill
1999 ISBN 81 7062 132 1
pp181
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Had there been any illusion that the new millennium would bring
an age of peace and harmony to the Indian sub-continent, these
were dispelled both by the circumstances in which the last year
ended, and the way the new one began. Whatever little margine
for hope may have existed after the hijacking of IC-814 on Christmas
Eve last, it soon gave way to a series of devastating attacks
in Jammu & Kashmir on security forces' installations and personnel,
by the fidayeen and suicide squads of Pakistan-backed militants
and mercenaries. The sense of the collapse of the Indian State's
institutional response structures was reinforced again and again,
beginning with the handling of the hijack, through the humiliating
denouement at Kandahar on New Year Eve, down to each succeeding
attack on heavily guarded military, para-military and police camps
and establishments in J&K.
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FAULTLINES: Volume V
Edited: K P S Gill
2000 ISBN 81-87553-04-9
pp 152
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The past year has been one of both remarkable successes against
terroirsm in South Asia, and of considerable and tragic failures.
In Sri Lanka, even as the world's hopes of a peaceful resolution
rose with the prospects of mediation, critical military reverses
for the Government in the Jaffna peninsula inflicted huge losses
of life, and pushed the prospects of peace far into an uncertain
future. In India, it has been a traumatic time for Kashmir, but
significant gains havebeen registered in the Northeast. Disturbing
signs are emerging in Nepal, with escalating violence by Maoist
'revolutionaries'.
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FAULTLINES: Volume VI
Editor: K P S Gill
2000 ISBN 81-87553-05-7
pp148
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Any permanent solution to the problem of terrorism demands a
clear understanding, not only of the immediate ground situation
and the proximate alignment of forces, but of the larger context
of each crisis and of teh imperatives of history. The present
volume explores the deeper linkages of a variety of conflicts
in the South Asian region.
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FAULTLINES: Volume VII
Editor: K P S Gill
2000 ISBN 81 87553 06 5
pp 170
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National perspectives on counter-terrorism are proving increasingly
inadequate in confronting the growing magnitude and complexity
of the threat of terrorism. The mobility and lethality of terrorist
groups has enormously augmented and there has been an exponential
increase in the support systems and contacts among terrorist groups,
transcending all conventional political boundaries. The cross-border
movement of populations compounds this problem even further, as
does the use of narcotics to underwrite the costs of terrorism.
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FAULTLINES: Volume VIII
Editor: K P S Gill
2000 ISBN 81 87553 07 3
pp 148
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| Terrorists combine extreme violence with
a wide range of overground political activity by front organisations
- public demonstrations, the adroit manipulation of the Press and
the Judicial process, and complex linkages with political parties,
'human rights' groups and 'legitimate' businesses. This volume explores
the unique problems a democracy hasin dealing with the collusive
patterns through which terrorists exploits the institutional structures
and freedoms of the very system they set out to destroy. |
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FAULTLINES: Volume IX
Editor: K P S Gill
2001 ISBN 81 87553 08 1
pp 160
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| The uncritical hysteria of expectations
and the almost delusional character of 'analyses' that dominates
media reportage on 'peace initiatives' pushes the ground realities
of internal conflicts into the far background. We thus have the
repeated experience of a comprehensive failure on the part of the
political establishment to accommodate the complex and destructive
dynamic of fragmented and unimaginative state responses confronting
the endless flexibility of constantly mutating terrorist organizations
and their supporters. This volume is an effort to restore a certain
measure of balance in the perspectives on various conflicts in India
that are arbitrarily and repeatedly destabilized by apparently well-intentioned
but ill-conceived policy initiatives |
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FAULTLINES: Volume X
Editor: K P S Gill
2002 ISBN 81 87553 09 X
pp 160
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| India's Northeast is an arena where a great tragedy
has been unfolding, as the original communities inhabiting the region
face a sustained assault as a result of the movement of disadvantaged
communities from contiguous areas, and of an unequal confrontation
with the processes of modernity. This volume brings a special focus
on the Northeast, exploring new perspectives on the multiplicity
of conflicts in the region, and assessing conventional wisdom and
past policies that have been applied to the resolution of various
problems there. It projects voices and perspectives from the region
to create a greater awareness of the divergences in perception that
exist in the discourse on insurgency and terrorism. |
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FAULTLINES: Volume XI
Editor: K P S Gill
2002 ISBN 81 87553 10 3
pp 152
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| Events since September 11, 2001, have inflicted transformations
on patterns of terrorism and counter-terrorism that would have been
inconceivable even days prior to the catastrophic attacks in America.
The present Volume turns a critical focus on a wide range of conflicts,
as well as initiatives for response and resolution in the context
of the post-9/11 era, reassessing the past against the backdrop
of emerging trends. Divergent perspectives on terrorism, the insurgencies
and peace processes in various States in India's Northeast, current
transformations in J&K, as well as communal faultlines in the country,
come under the uncompromising scrutiny of experts drawn from a range
of disciplines. |
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FAULTLINES: Volume XII
Editor: K P S Gill
2002 ISBN 81 87553 12 X
pp 176
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| There is a great churning in progress in South Asia.
Though the war on global terror continues in outward form, its inner
clarity and coherence of purpose have been diluted by competing
perceptions of geopolitical advantage. Thus, while Pakistan's terrorist
agenda is undergoing constant mutations under rising international
pressure, still it continues to evidence remarkable continuities.
This, indeed remains true of a multiplicity of terrorist and insurgent
movements in the region, which have been substantially transformed
by the pressures of the growing international consensus against
terrorist, but which nevertheless tend to concede no more than what
has been coerced. The war against terrorism clearly promises to
be a long one, and the present volume examines some of its manifestations. |
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FAULTLINES: Volume XIII
Editor: K P S Gill
2002 ISBN 81 87553 13 8
pp 158
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| The 'Global War against Terror' notwithstanding, the
sources, the power and the impact of terrorism continue to extend
themselves into uncharted geographical areas. Though the world today
recognizes the imperatives of the containment of terrorist violence,
more than a year after 9/11, there is little evidence of a consistent
international resolve to do what is necessary to secure this end.
Counter-terrorism responses, both in South Asia and in other theatres
across the world, remain inchoate and fitful. If the war against
terrorism is to succeed, it will have to evolve, before all else,
a clearer understanding of the dynamics of terrorism and the development
of strategic perspectives that can disrupt, and eventually neutralize,
its support sytems. Faultlines seeks to create the basis
for such an understanding. |
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FAULTLINES: Volume XIV
Editor: K P S Gill
2003 ISBN 81 87553 14 6
pp 158
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| From crisis to crisis, the world has stumbled, confounded,
in its 'war against terror', with polices marked by incoherence
and damning contradictions. Meanwhile, the forces of extremist violence
and those who secure their inspiration from the ideologies of hate
are recovering from their brief disorientation to consolidate their
networks and resume operations. The opportunities of the fleeting
consensus that had crystallized in the wake of the 9/11 attacks
have largely dissipated. While a narrowly defined group of terrorists
- those that are seen to threaten the US - are hunted relentlessly
across the world, the pursuit of a 'false peace' has become endemic
among other victims of terrorism, as democracies enter into unprincipled
negotiations with terrorists, mass murderers, and the rogue regimes
that support and sponsor them. Ambivalence, vacillation and error
once again undermine the international will to respond adequately
to the gravity of the challenge of terrorism. |
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FAULTLINES: Volume XV
Editor: K P S Gill
2004 ISBN 81-87553-15-4
pp 168
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Is the enterprise of terrorism finally in a retreat?
In South Asia, at least, there are some indications that this may
be so. With the exception of the apparently indiscriminate slaughters
in Nepal since the breakdown of the 'peace process' with the Maoist
rebels in August 2003, fatality rates have registered a decline
in almost all theatres in the region.
But is this the prelude to a final winding down of terror, or a
tactical hibernation? Until conclusive evidence emerges to the contrary,
it is prudent to be sceptical, and to recognize the possibility
of a terrorist resurgence. |
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FAULTLINES: Volume XVI
Editor: K P S Gill
2005 ISBN 81-87553-16-2
pp 156
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There appears to have been a secular decline in trends in terrorist and insurgent violence in South Asia since 9/11, but there are dramatic skews in this trend, and there has been a dramatic expansion in the geographical spread of such conflicts. Worse, the spheres of political mismanagement and incompetence, of general lawlessness and criminality, and of sectarian, communal and other collective tensions appear to be expanding across much of the region, notwithstanding isolated success stories and dramatic economic and technological transformations in some areas.
The present volume is a small addition to the larger venture that seeks to scrutinize the Byzantine patterns of terrorism and insurgency, as well as the policies and practices to counter these.
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DODA : An Insurgency in the Wilderness
Author: Colonel Harjeet Singh (Retd)
Editor: RANABIR SAMADDAR
1999 ISBN 1 897829 59 0
pp 216
Price: Hb pp 301 Rs 495 $ 43 Buy
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| It traces the history of the region, describes the
advent and growth of militancy, and enumerates the steps taken to
combat and control the insurgency situation. There is no single
model to combat insurgency. It has to be tailored to suit the dangers
and opportunities of the moment. The essential focus of the situation
in Kashmir has been towards the happenings in the Kashmir valley.
The spread of the problem into Doda and other areas south of the
Pir Panjal ranges has gone relatively unnoticed. In the barren hillsides
of Doda, the insurgency is more alarming because it is in the hinterland.
For the first time captured diaries of militants are being published
which give an insight into the mind and motivation of those who
take arms against the state. |
