Rethinking Violence: States and Non-State Actors in Conflict (Belfer Center Studies in International Security)

✍ Scribed by Erica Chenoweth, Adria Lawrence, Stathis Kalyvas

Publisher: The MIT Press
Year: 2010
Tongue: English
Leaves: 304
Series: Belfer Center Studies in International Security
Edition: New edition
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

An original argument about the causes and consequences of political violence and the range of strategies employed.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Foreword......Page 12
1 Introduction......Page 16
Part I: Rethinking State Violence......Page 36
2 Targeting Civilians to Win?......Page 38
3 War, Collaboration, and Endogenous Ethnic Polarization......Page 72
4 Assimilation and its Alternatives......Page 98
5 Ethnic Partition Under the League of Nations......Page 132
Part II: Rethinking Non-state Violence......Page 156
6 Driven to Arms?......Page 158
7 Dissent, Repression, and Inconsistency......Page 188
8 A Composite-Actor Approach to Conflict Behavior......Page 212
9 The Turn to Violence in Self-Determination Struggles in Chechnya and Punjab......Page 236
10 Mobilization and Resistance......Page 264
Contributors......Page 292
Index......Page 295
Belfer Center Studies in International Security......Page 301

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