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Rivalry and revenge : the politics of violence during civil war

Title: Rivalry and revenge : the politics of violence during civil war / Laia Balcells, Duke University.
Author: Balcells, Laia
Publication: Cambridge : New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017.

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Description

xvi, 263 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

What explains violence against civilians in civil wars? Why do groups kill civilians in areas where they have full military control and their rivals have no military presence? This innovative book connects pre-war politics to patterns of violence during civil war. It argues that both local political rivalry and local revenge account for violence against civilians. Armed groups perpetrate direct violence jointly with local civilians, who collaborate when violence can help them gain or consolidate local political control. As civil war continues, revenge motives also come into play, leading to spirals of violence at a local level. In an important contribution to the study of the Spanish Civil War, Balcells combines statistical analyses with ethnographic and qualitative research to provide new insights to scholars and academic researchers with an interest in civil war, politics and conflict processes. Rivalry and Revenge is theoretically and empirically rich, and it offers a theory and method generalizable to a wide set of cases.--

Series Statement

Cambridge studies in comparative politics

Uniform Title

Cambridge studies in comparative politics

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

JFE 17-2728

ISBN

9781107118690
1107118697

LCCN

2016047817

OCLC

971511499

Author

Balcells, Laia, author.

Title

Rivalry and revenge : the politics of violence during civil war / Laia Balcells, Duke University.

Publisher

Cambridge : New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Cambridge studies in comparative politics

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1936-2007

Research Call Number

JFE 17-2728

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