The British Approach to Counterinsurgency

HUW BENNETT Lecturer in Defence Studies at King's College London, UK, teaching at the Joint Services Command and Staff College in Shrivenham, UK SIR SHERARD COWPER-COLES Career diplomat, currently working for BAE System advising on business development in the Middle East and south-east Asia HILARY CORNISH Research student at the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland BRICE DICKSON Professor of International and Comparative Law at Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland CLAIRE DUNCANSON Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland KARL HACK Chair of the Open University's new history course 'Empires 1492-1975' DAVID HUNT Professor of History in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA GLEN RANGWALA Lecturer in Politics at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, UK

List of Tables Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors List of Abbreviations The British Approach to Counterinsurgency: 'Hearts and Minds' from Malaya to Afghanistan?; P.Dixon Analysing British Counterinsurgency Beyond Hearts and Minds? Perspectives on Counterinsurgency; P.Dixon Britain's Vietnam Syndrome? Perspectives on British Counterinsurgency, the Media and Public Opinion; P.Dixon Bringing it all Back Home? The Militarisation of Britain and the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars; P.Dixon    A Feminist Approach to British Counterinsurgency; C.Duncanson  & H.Cornish Baha Mousa and the British Army in Iraq; H.Bennett    Case Studies: Malaya to Afghanistan Using and Abusing the Past: The Malayan Emergency as Counterinsurgency Paradigm; K.Hack Dirty Wars: Counterinsurgency from Vietnam to Afghanistan; D.Hunt 'Hearts and Minds'? British Counterinsurgency Strategy in Northern Ireland; P.Dixon Counterinsurgency and Human Rights in Northern Ireland; B.Dickson Counterinsurgency amid Fragmentation: the British in Southern Iraq; G.Rangwala Countering the Afghan Insurgency: Three Lessons Learned; S.Cowper-Coles Conclusion: The Military and British Democracy; P.Dixon