Paul Staniland is Assistant Professor of Political Science and Codirector of the Program on International Security Policy at the University of Chicago.

1. Organizing Insurgency
Part I. Theorizing Rebellion
2. Insurgent Origins
3. Insurgent Change
Part II. Comparative Evidence from South Asia
4. Azad and Jihad: Trajectories of Insurgency in Kashmir
5. Organizing Rebellion in Afghanistan
6. Explaining Tamil Militancy in Sri Lanka
Part III. Extensions and Implications
7. "Peasants and Commissars": Communist Tides in Southeast Asia
8. Insurgency, War, and Politics