CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION: THE POLICE IN COUNTERINSURGENCY OPERATIONS, C. CHRISTINE FAIR AND SUMIT GANGULY; 1. WHEN THE POLICE ARE THE PROBLEM: THE PHILIPPINE CONSTABULARY AND THE HUKBALAHAP REBELLION, WALTER LADWIG; 2. 'THE POLICE MUST BE PART OF THE PEOPLE AND THE PEOPLE PART OF THE POLICE': POLICING IN THE MALAYAN EMERGENCY (1948-60), KUMAR RAMAKRISHNA; 3. POLICING IN KENYA DURING THE MAU MAU EMERGENCY, 1952-60, HUW BENNETT AND ANDREW MUMFORD; 4. THE ROLE OF THE ROYAL ULSTER CONSTABULARY IN NORTHERN IRELAND MARK COCHRANE; 5. PROBLEMS AND POTENTIAL: THE ROLE OF THE POLICE IN THE COLOMBIAN INSURGENCY, JENNIFER TAW; 6. POLICE CAPACITY AND INSURGENCY IN PAKISTAN, ADNAN NASEEMULLAH; 7. THE POLICE IN AFGHANISTAN, 2002-2011, AUSTIN LONG; 8. THE ROLE OF POLICE IN COUNTERINSURGENCY OPERATIONS IN IRAQ, 2003-2006, MATT SHERMAN AND JOSHUA PAUL; 9. THE PUNJAB POLICE AND COUNTERINSURGENCY AGAINST SIKH MILITANTS IN INDIA: THE SUCCESSFUL CONVERGENCE OF INTERESTS, IDENTITIES, AND INSTITUTIONS, JUGDEP S. CHIMA; 10. THE POLICE AND INDIA'S MAOIST INSURGENCY, ARVIND VERMA; 11. POLICE IN COUNTERINSURGENCY: THE CHALLENGE OF COMPREHENSIVE REFORMATION, DAVID P. FIDLER; INDEX; ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS