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Book SynopsisIn Bullets Not Ballots, Jacqueline L. Hazelton challenges the claim that winning hearts and minds is critical to successful counterinsurgency campaigns. Good governance, this conventional wisdom holds, gains the besieged government popular support, denies support to the insurgency, and makes military victory possible. Hazelton argues that major counterinsurgent successes since World War II have resulted not through democratic reforms but rather through the use of military force against civilians and the co-optation of rival elites.
Hazelton offers new analyses of five historical cases frequently held up as examples of the effectiveness of good governance in ending rebellionsthe Malayan Emergency, the Greek Civil War, the Huk Rebellion in the Philippines, the Dhofar rebellion in Oman, and the Salvadoran Civil Warto show that, although unpalatable, it was really brutal repression and bribery that brought each conflict to an end. By showing how compell
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The policy recommendations and implications here are clear, which makes the book rare among theoretically grounded work in international relations.
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Table of Contents1. Counterinsurgency: Eating Soup with a Chainsaw
2. Counterinsurgency: What It Is and Is Not
3. Not the Wars You're Looking For: Malaya, Greece, the Philippines
4. A New Laboratory: Dhofar, Oman
5. High Cost Success: El Salvador
6. How Much Does the Compellence Theory Explain? Turkey and the PKK
7. Counterinsurgency Success: Costs High and Rising
