How Insurgency Begins: Rebel Group Formation in Uganda and Beyond

ISBN-13: 9781108479660 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 200 str.

Janet I. Lewis

Opis

Why do only some incipient rebel groups become viable challengers to governments? Only those that control local rumor networks survive.

Recenzje

'... its methodological intervention, conceptual work, and empirics make unique and valuable contributions to studies of state formation and violent conflict, initiating not one but several new areas of inquiry for scholars in the field.' Rebecca Tapscott, Comparative Politics

Spis treści

Part I: Rethinking How Armed Conflicts Begin; 1. Introduction; 2. A theory of rebel group formation; Part II: Uganda and Beyond; 3. Context and initial conditions; 4. The rebels; 5. Civilians; 6. The state; Part III: Implications; 7. Implications for scholarship and policy; Appendices; References; Index.