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India’s Maoist Insurgency: Drivers and Policy Responses

New Delhi has referred to India’s Maoist insurgency as the country’s biggest internal security challenge. What explains the re-emergence and expansion of Maoist violence in India’s rural areas over the last decade, and how should it be dealt with?

Date & Time

Tuesday
May. 6, 2014
4:00pm – 5:15pm ET

Location

5th Floor, Woodrow Wilson Center
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Overview

New Delhi has referred to India’s Maoist insurgency as the country’s biggest internal security challenge. What explains the re-emergence and expansion of Maoist violence in India’s rural areas over the last decade, and how should it be dealt with?  In this presentation, Wilson Center Fellow Emmanuel Teitelbaum will explore the economic, political, and social factors that have given rise to the conflict, and discuss the effectiveness of policy responses so far. 

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Emmanuel Teitelbaum

Emmanuel Teitelbaum

Former Fellow;
Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, The George Washington University
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Indo-Pacific Program

The Indo-Pacific Program promotes policy debate and intellectual discussions on US interests in the Asia-Pacific as well as political, economic, security, and social issues relating to the world’s most populous and economically dynamic region.   Read more

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