Introduction: Armed Politics and State Power
1. The Politics of Threat Perception
2. How Armed Orders Change
3. Armed Orders and Ideological Projects in South Asia
4. India
5. Pakistan
6. Burma/Myanmar
7. Sri Lanka
Conclusion: Rethinking Politics and Violence

Paul Staniland is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, Associate Director of the Chicago Project on Security and Threats, and a nonresident scholar in the South Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He is the author of Networks of Rebellion. Follow him on X @pstanpolitics.