Micropolitics of Violence – serie
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Mobilizing the Faithful
Militant Islamist Groups and Their Constituencies
Häftad, 2011
802 kr
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One of the keys to dealing with militant Islamic groups is understanding how they work with, relate to, and motivate their constituencies. "Mobilizing the Faithful" offers a pair of detailed case studies - of the Egyptian groups al-Jamaa al-Islamiyya and al-Jihad and Lebanon's Hizbullah - to …
In the Shadow of Violence
The Politics of Armed Groups
Häftad, 2009
402 kr
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As civil wars and insurgencies rage around the globe, Klaus Schlichte's "In the Shadow of Violence" addresses a crucial question: why do some groups succeed in violently seizing and holding power while others fail? What makes for a successful non-state armed force? Arguing that success rests on the …
Intervention as Indirect Rule
Civil War and Statebuilding in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Av Alex Veit
Häftad, 2011
489 kr
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In "Intervention as Indirect Rule", Alex Veit uses a close study of the district of Ituri in the Congo, a major battlefield and a laboratory for international intervention, to explore the micropolitics of warfare and statebuilding. Combining detailed firsthand empirical data with a historically …
Normality of Civil War
Armed Groups and Everyday Life in Angola
Häftad, 2013
489 kr
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In "The Normality of Civil War", Teresa Koloma Beck uses theories of the everyday to analyze the social processes of civil war, specifically the type of conflict that is characterized by the expansion of violence into so-called normal life. She looks beyond simplistic notions of victims and …
Civil War and State Formation
The Political Economy of War and Peace in Liberia
Av Felix Gerdes
Häftad, 2013
488 kr
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The scene of two devastating civil wars since 1989, Liberia was widely considered a failed state until Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was democratically elected president in 2005. This book investigates the political economy of civil war and democratic peace, arguing that the civil wars did not represent …
Secessionist Rule
Protracted Conflict and Configurations of Non-State Authority
Häftad, 2017
414 kr
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In this timely investigation of secessionist entities in post-Soviet territories, Smolnik explores how political authority is organized, produced, and reproduced in conditions of violent conflict. Drawing on case studies of unrecognized or only partially recognized states in the South Caucasus, she …
