Format:
1 online resource (430 pages)
ISBN:
9780511347672
Series Statement:
Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
Content:
This book presents a theory to account for the different strategies pursued by rebel groups in civil war.
Content:
Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures, Tables, and Maps -- Figures -- Tables -- Maps -- List of Abbreviations -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Inside Rebellion -- Introduction: Varieties of Rebellion -- Lukumbi Village, Uganda, 1981 -- Maringue Village, Mozambique, 1979 -- The Puzzle -- The Argument -- The Mechanisms -- Civil War, Violence, and Organization -- Structure and Agency -- Looking Ahead -- Part I The Structure of Rebel Organizations -- 1 The Industrial Organization of Violence -- Organizers of Revolution -- Common Principles -- Divergent Practices -- Theories of Rebellion: The Puzzling Absence of Organization -- Organizing Violence -- Five Challenges of Rebel Organization -- Constraints on Strategy -- The Origins of Constraints -- Research Design and Data -- The National Resistance Army, Renamo, and Sendero Luminoso -- The Data -- 2 Four Rebel Organizations -- The National Resistance Army: 27 Young Men -- Renamo: The Gift of External Patronage -- Sendero Luminoso Nacional: A Decade of Preparation -- Sendero Luminoso-Huallaga: On the Other Side of the Mountains -- Examining Rebels' Choices -- 3 Recruitment -- Participation in Rebellion -- Endowments, Information, and Recruitment -- A Theory of Rebel Recruitment -- Recruitment in Practice -- Ethnic Appeals and Community Ties: The NRA -- From Voluntarism to Violence: Renamo -- Spreading Ideology: Sendero Luminoso Nacional -- A Coalition of Cocaleros: Sendero-Huallaga -- Conclusion -- 4 Control -- The Rationale for Organization -- The Structure of Organization -- How Important Is Hierarchy? -- Rebel Strategies -- Organizational Control in Practice -- Formal and Informal Codes of Conduct: The NRA -- Centralization and Distrust: Renamo -- Decentralization and the Guiding Line: Sendero Luminoso Nacional.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521860772
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780521860772
Additional Edition:
Druckausg. Weinstein, Jeremy M. Inside rebellion Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2007 ISBN 0521677971
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0521860776
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521677974
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521860772
Language:
English
Subjects:
Political Science
Keywords:
Bürgerkrieg
;
Kriegführung
;
Gewalttätigkeit
;
Geschichte 1975-2007
;
Strategie
;
Aufständischer
;
Guerilla
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