Author profile: Amalendu Misra

Amalendu Misra is Professor of International Politics at Lancaster University, and the author of Towards a Philosophy of Narco-Violence in Mexico (2018 Palgrave).

The Killers’ Kindness: Gang Humanitarianism in Latin America

Amalendu Misra • Mar 14 2023 • Articles

When accepting a gang’s favour, communities can become prisoners to criminal authority and demands in perpetuity.

The Neo-Taliban: The Shape of Things to Come…

Amalendu Misra • Mar 16 2009 • Articles

One of the enduring features of Western strategic thinking over the past half-century has been to immediately write off one’s less powerful enemy, if the latter has been militarily overpowered. As the history of contemporary warfare suggests, very often this approach is couched on the realist thinking that a vanquished enemy is incapable of making a comeback.

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