عنوان
پدید آورنده
موضوع
رده
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER
Number
T653
LANGUAGE OF THE ITEM
.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc
انگلیسی
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
The Etiology of Protracted and Criminally Sustained Internal Wars in the Post Cold-War Era: The Continuation and Termination of the FARC, KLA, and EZLN Insurgencies
General Material Designation
[Thesis]
Subsequent Statement of Responsibility
;supervisor: Jordan, David C.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
University of Virginia: United States -- Virginia
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
: 2012
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
251 Pages
DISSERTATION (THESIS) NOTE
Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree
Ph.D.
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
As state sponsorship for insurgencies has declined, there has been a greater need to understand how modern insurgencies support themselves. Some insurgency groups have turned to the drug trade to sustain their respective conflicts. Unfortunately, the available academic literature on the relationship between narcotics and insurgency has been limited. Most of the available research applies a statistical framework and only demonstrates that there is a link between conflict duration and narcotics. In addition to grouping narcotics with other commodities, existing studies fail to examine other important factors and can only speculate as to how contemporary internal conflicts function. Many of the statistical studies are also hampered by adopting a historical snapshot approach that prevents examination of the impact of narcotics involvement over time. As a result, the existing research overlooks factors that are critical to the relationship between narcotics and insurgency, such as transnational criminal organizations and the illicit global economy. Without incorporating these important variables, an analysis of an insurgency supported by the drug trade will be incomplete. The dissertation adopts a new framework to examine the relationship between narcotics and the sustainability of conflict. The project examines the development of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). The Zapatista National Liberation Army is analyzed as a control case. It examines three independent variables that are connected to the sustainability of insurgency: narcotics, transnational criminal organizations, and the globalization of finance and trade. Instead of a statistical focus, the dissertation adopts a case study approach to examine the development of each insurgency over time. By doing so, it can accurately trace the effects of narcotics involvement on an insurgent organization. The study moves away from a purely domestic focus adopted by other studies and examines variables that operate transnationally, presenting a more complete analysis of the relationship between insurgency and narcotics.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
International Relations
Criminology
UNCONTROLLED SUBJECT TERMS
Subject Term
Social sciences
Subject Term
Insurgency
Subject Term
Drug trafficking
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Transnational crime
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Post-Cold War
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Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia
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Kosovo Liberation Army
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Ejercito Zapatista de Liberacion Nacional
Subject Term
Mexico
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Skorupski, Bolko Josef
PERSONAL NAME - SECONDARY RESPONSIBILITY
Jordan, David C., supervisor
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