Alex Waterman

In 2022, the ceasefire between the Government of India and the National Socialist Council of Nagalim–Isak-Muivah (NSCN–IM) entered its 25th year. While the ceasefire has greatly reduced violence between the...

• Alex Waterman |
• September 2022 |
• Strategic Analysis

While the third Bodo accord is a momentous development in the history of the Bodo conflict, caution must be exercised to ensure that it does not fall victim to the...

• Alex Waterman |
• February 19, 2020 |
• Issue Brief

Counterinsurgency (COIN) has long been recognised as a political phenomenon, but current theoretical understandings of politics in COIN reflect ideal types, overlooking the depth and complexity of the politics of...

• Alex Waterman |
• September 2017 |
• Strategic Analysis

While decades of counterinsurgency operations and peace processes have taken the sting out of the region’s major insurgencies, collaboration between groups continues to pose security challenges, particularly in the exploitable...

• Alex Waterman |
• August 10, 2017 |
• IDSA Comments

The perception management component of information warfare has long been recognised as an important tool of warfare, appearing in military doctrines worldwide. The challenges and opportunities of its practice in...

• Alex Waterman |
• January 2017 |
• Journal of Defence Studies

Partly the result of a political and physical isolation compounded by decades of conflict in the region, Northeast India is often viewed through the prism of security studies, institutional performance...

• Alex Waterman |
• January 2017 |
• Strategic Analysis