<p><span>In </span><span>Ordering Violence</span><span>, Paul Staniland advances a broad approach to armed politicsβbringing together governments, insurgents, militias, and armed political parties in a shared frameworkβto argue that governments' perception of the ideological threats posed by armed g
Ordering Violence: Explaining Armed Group-State Relations from Conflict to Cooperation
β Scribed by Paul Staniland
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Year
- 2021
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 351
- Category
- Library
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