Rethinking Violence : States and Non-State Actors in Conflict /

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"States, nationalist movements, and ethnic groups in conflict with one another often face a choice between violent and nonviolent strategies. Although major wars between sovereign states have become rare, contemporary world politics has been rife with internal conflict, ethnic cleansing, and vi...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Other Authors: Kalyvas, Stathis N., 1964- (writer of foreword.), Lawrence, Adria, 1973- (Editor), Chenoweth, Erica, 1980- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, 2010.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
War > Moral and ethical aspects.
Political violence > Prevention.
Forced migration.
Ethnic conflict > Prevention.
Conflict management.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Security (National & International)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Violence in Society.
Guerre > Aspect moral.
Gestion des conflits.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Internal conflict and political violence : new developments in research / Stathis N. Kalyvas
  • Introduction / Adria Lawrence and Erica Chenoweth
  • Targeting civilians to win? Assessing the military effectiveness of civilian victimization in interstate war / Alexander B. Downes and Kathryn McNabb Cochran
  • War, collaboration, and endogenous ethnic polarization : the path to ethnic cleansing / H. Zeynep Bulutgil
  • Assimilation and its alternatives : caveats in the study of nation-building policies / Harris Mylonas
  • Ethnic partition under the League of Nations : the cases of population exchanges in the interwar Balkans / Erin K. Jenne
  • Driven to arms? The escalation to violence in Nationalist conflicts / Adria Lawrence
  • Dissent, repression, and inconsistency / Kathleen Gallagher Cunningham and Emily Beaulieu
  • A composite-actor approach to conflict behavior / Wendy Pearlman
  • The turn to violence in self-determination struggles in Chechnya and Punjab / Kristin M. Bakke
  • Mobilization and resistance : a framework for analysis / Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan.

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