The Naxalite conflict: heating up or fading away?

Christopher Wiley Shay, PhD
May, 2017
Link to IISS Blog
Image credit: Surendra Singh Kaswan

Abstract

The Maoist insurgency in east India is facing a recruitment crisis and increasing numbers of fatalities and surrenders – but its decline is not inevitable.

Publication
In International Institute for Strategic Studies (Blog)
Insurgencies Red Corrdior Naxalites
Christopher Wiley Shay, PhD
Christopher Wiley Shay, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow

I study resistance movements, their legacies on societies and governments, and how these legacies help or hinder democratization.