How Insurgency Begins

@inproceedings{Lewis2020HowIB,
  title={How Insurgency Begins},
  author={Janet I. Lewis},
  year={2020}
}
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Factionalisation from Below: The Case of Palestinian Fatah
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Power Sharing and Authoritarian Stability: How Rebel Regimes Solve the Guardianship Dilemma
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Social sanctions and violent mobilization: lessons from the Crimean Tatar case
Explaining the resilience of Boko Haram’s insurgency in the Lake Chad Basin
ABSTRACT Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari continues to insist that Boko Haram has been been ‘technically defeated’, claiming that peace has returned to the Lake Chad Basin. However, reports from…
From Chatter to Action: How Social Networks Inform and Motivate in Rural Uganda
From public health to political campaigns, numerous attempts to encourage behavior begin with the spread of information. Of course, seeding new information does not guarantee action, especially…
Introduction: promoting restraint in war
ABSTRACT Over the last decade, changes in the nature of conflict have generated profound operational challenges for international humanitarian organizations. The number of non-international armed…
Making or un-making states: when does war have formative effects?
  • Johannes Jüde
  • Political Science
    European Journal of International Relations
  • 2021
“War made the state, and the state made war” is Charles Tilly’s famous dictum that has become highly influential both in comparative macrosociology and in International Relations. An extensive…
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