The wave of civil wars, terror attacks, and insurgencies over the last half century has redefined our notion of protracted conflicts. While the American news media have devoted primary coverage to the threat posed by al-Qaeda since 9/11, other insurgent groups have arisen and gained momentum across the map, and much less attention has been devoted to explaining what governmental policies bring such insurgencies to an end.
The result of a multiyear project, Terror, Insurgency, and the State assembles the findings of scholars who conducted extensive field research with rebel groups and governments. This comparative analysis documents the aim of long-standing insurgent groups such as the Tamil Tigers, the IRA, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, the Kurdistan Workers' Party, Basque Country and Liberty, and the People's Liberation Army of the Communist Party of Nepal, as well as the more recently visible Hizballah and Hamas. These groups represent varying kinds of insurgency. Several strive for national liberation or territory. They are either secessionists who contend with a central government that they regard as hostile, or irredentists who seek to reunify a divided homeland. Others, with rural and peasant bases, emphasize economic inequalities, class struggle, and socialism. At least three known factions are explicitly Islamist, with a religious agenda and a paramilitary organization.
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Terror, Insurgency, and the State assembles the findings of more than a dozen scholars who have conducted extensive field research with rebel groups. This comparative analysis documents the aim of longstanding insurgent groups.
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Preface
-John Tirman
Introduction: Thinking About Durable Political Violence
-Brendan O'Leary and John Tirman
1. ETA: Euskadi 'ta Askatasuna
-Marianne Heiberg
2. FARC-EP: Las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia-Ejercito del Pueblo
-Marc Chernick
3. GAM: Gerakan Aceh Merdeka (Free Aceh Movement)
-Kirsten E. Schulze
4. Hamas: Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiyya
-Jeroen Gunning
5. Hizballah
-Jeroen Gunning
6. IRA: Irish Republican Army (Oglaigh na hEireann)
-Brendan O'Leary
7. JKLF and JKHM: Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front and Jammu and Kashmir Hizb-ul Mujahideen
-Sumantra Bose
8. LTTE: Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
-Brendan O'Duffy
9. PCP-SL: Partido Comunista de Peru-Sendero Luminos
-Marc Chernick
10. PKK: Partiya Karkaren Kurdistan
-Dogu Ergil
11. PLA CPN (M): People's Liberation Army of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist)
-Harald Olav Skar
Conclusion. Understanding and Ending Persistent Conflicts: Bridging Research and Policy
-Brendan O'Leary and Andrew Silke
Notes
List of Contributors
Index
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"An important collection of case study examinations of . . . longstanding insurgencies in Spain, Columbia, Indonesia, Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, India, Sri Lanka, Peru, Turkey, and Napal. . . . The book's individual chapters give superb background information. . . . These case studies provide excellent substantive foundations for comparative analysis. The authors make numerous realistic and constructive recommendations for policy makers. . . . Highly recommended."-Choice
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780812220292
Publisert
2007-12-18
Utgiver
Vendor
University of Pennsylvania Press
Høyde
235 mm
Bredde
155 mm
Aldersnivå
05, U
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
512