Transnational Dynamics of Civil War
Civil wars are the dominant form of violence in the contemporary international system, yet they are anything but local affairs. This book explores the border-crossing features of such wars by bringing together insights from international relations theory, sociology, and transnational politics with a...
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Cambridge, U.K
Cambridge University Press
24.01.2013
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- Ethnic outbidding: the PKK and its alternatives -- Resource mobilization: the diaspora as a source ofmaterial support -- Lobbying and persuasion: getting the Kurdish issue onto the European political agenda -- Conclusions -- 4 Refugee militancy in exile and upon return in Afghanistan and Rwanda* -- Introduction -- Mechanisms of returnee violence -- Socialization -- Resource distribution -- Security entrapment -- Refugee militancy and violent returns in Afghanistan -- The emergence of a state-in-exile (1978-1992) -- Resource distribution -- Socialization -- Regime change and civil war (1992-2001) -- Socialization -- Security entrapment -- International intervention and armed remobilization (2001-) -- Socialization -- Resource distribution -- Security entrapment -- Refugee return and political violence in Rwanda -- Tutsi refugees in Uganda, 1959-1990 -- Socialization -- Security entrapment -- Resource distribution -- Civil war and genocide, 1990-1994 -- Security entrapment -- Socialization -- Transnational interactions among mechanisms -- Reintegration and consolidation of power, 1994-2010 -- Socialization -- Resource distribution -- Concluding remarks -- 5 Rebels without a cause? Transnational diffusion and the Lord's Resistance Army, 1986-2011 -- Transnational mechanisms and non-state violence -- Framing and justification of violence, 1987-2003: LRA manifestos and the transnational dimensions of the uprising -- Framing the uprising: missionary teachings, marginalization, and the crisis of traditional societies -- Defensive framing: early human rights mobilization and diaspora activism -- Repertoires of violence: changing levels of atrocities -- Resource mobilization: governmental interests and small arms diffusion -- Frames of global justice and peace, 2003-2011: ICC indictments and Juba negotiations -- Conclusions
- Intro -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Contributors -- Preface -- Part I Civil war - mobilizing across borders -- 1 Transnational dynamics of civil war* -- Civil war and the transnational -- Theory and analytics -- Methodological issues -- Summary -- Transnational mechanisms of civil war -- Causal mechanisms - from confusion to emergent consensus -- Transnational politics and civil war -- Theorizing transnationalized violence -- Summary -- Causal mechanisms in action - the challenge of measuring process -- State of the art -- Capturing mechanisms - process tracing -- Extensions to violent conflict -- Conclusions and preview -- Preview -- Part II Transnationalized civil war -- 2 Copying and learning from outsiders? Assessing diffusion from transnational insurgents in the Chechen wars -- Transnational insurgents -- Transnationalism, social movements, and intrastate struggles -- Diffusion from transnational to domestic insurgents -- Shifts in framing -- Tactical innovation -- Resource mobilization -- Research design -- Transnational insurgents in the Chechen wars -- Effect on framing -- Effect on tactical innovation -- Effect on resource mobilization -- Lessons learnt and further research -- 3 Mechanisms of diaspora mobilization and the transnationalization of civil war* -- Introduction -- Diasporas and violent conflict -- Diaspora mobilization in civil wars: identifying causal mechanisms -- The process of diaspora mobilization -- Transnational brokerage -- Strategic framing -- Ethnic or sectarian outbidding -- The impacts of mobilization on violent conflict -- Resource mobilization -- Lobbying and persuasion -- Diaspora mobilization in the Kurdish conflict in Turkey (1980-2000) -- Transnational brokerage: linking Europe with the conflict in southeastern Turkey -- Strategic framing: constructing a politicized Kurdish identity in Europe
- 6 Transnational advocacy networks, rebel groups, and demobilization of child soldiers in Sudan* -- Introduction -- Rebel groups and child soldiers -- The Sudanese Liberation Army's decision to demobilize child soldiers in 2001 -- Conclusion -- 7 Conflict diffusion via social identities: entrepreneurship and adaptation* -- Conflict diffusion as identity diffusion -- Social adaptation and norm entrepreneurship -- The case for agent-based modeling -- A model of norm emergence -- The transnational diffusion of social identities -- Countries without linkages -- Transnationalized social adaptation -- Transnationalized norm entrepreneurship -- Discussion and conclusion -- Part III Theory, mechanisms, and the study of civil war -- 8 Causal mechanisms and typological theories in the study of civil conflict* -- Introduction -- Causal mechanisms - definitions and theoretical framing -- Mechanisms and methods -- From analytic eclecticism to structured pluralism: causal mechanisms and the cumulation of knowledge -- Case studies, causal mechanisms, and typological theories -- Conclusions -- 9 Transnational dynamics of civil war: where do we go from here? -- Introduction -- Diffusion: a metaphor, an outcome, a process? -- Transnational dynamics of civil conflict: recent quantitative literature -- The contributions of this volume -- The transnational mobilization of support -- Transnational insurgents -- On transnational diffusion -- On method -- Conclusion: a research agenda -- Bibliography -- Index