Rebels and conflict escalation explaining the rise and decline of rebel violence
Violence during war often involves upswings and downturns that have, to date, been insufficiently explained. Why does violence at a particular point in time increase in intensity and why do actors in war decrease the level of violence at other points? Duyvesteyn discusses the potential explanatory v...
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| Format: | Elektronisch E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
2021
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| Zusammenfassung: | Violence during war often involves upswings and downturns that have, to date, been insufficiently explained. Why does violence at a particular point in time increase in intensity and why do actors in war decrease the level of violence at other points? Duyvesteyn discusses the potential explanatory variables for escalation and de-escalation in conflicts involving states and non-state actors, such as terrorists and insurgents. Using theoretical arguments and examples from modern history, this book presents the most notable causal mechanisms or shifts in the shape of propositions that could explain the rise and decline of non-state actor violence after the start and before the termination of conflict. This study critically reflects on the conceptualisation of escalation as linear, rational and wilful, and instead presents an image of rebel escalation as accidental, messy and within a very limited range of control |
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| Beschreibung: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 13 Jul 2021) Rebels and escalation -- Escalation and de-escalation -- Political opportunity and rebel violence -- Political will; provocation and concession -- Capabilities; strategy -- Capabilities; substitution -- Political will; group processes and individual considerations -- Legitimacy and support -- De-escalation -- The escalation and de-escalation of rebel violence |
| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 268 Seiten) |
| ISBN: | 9781009008952 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/9781009008952 |