عنوان

Rebel Fratricide in Strong States:

شماره

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انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Rebel Fratricide in Strong States:

نام عام مواد

[Thesis]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Evans, Tyler

عنوان اصلي به قلم نويسنده ديگر

Infighting in Northern Ireland'S Republican Insurgency and the Kurdish Rebellion in Turkey

نام ساير پديدآوران

Atzili, Boaz

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

American University

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2019

نام خاص و کميت اثر

438

جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن

Ph.D.

کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده

American University

امتياز متن

2019

متن يادداشت

Why do rebels sometimes go to war with each other, weakening their position against their common enemy, the state? This dissertation compares two cases of intra-rebel war that pose an especially difficult puzzle for existing theories of intra-rebel war: the fighting between the Official IRA and the Provisional IRA in Belfast (1969-1980) and war among Kurdish revolutionaries in Turkey (1974-1980). These two cases are puzzling because both occurred in areas where the state was strong, and therefore able to capitalize operationally and politically on rebel fratricide. By comparing these two cases, this dissertation argues that broadly similar causal mechanisms can help to explain these intra-rebel wars. In both cases, rebel organizations were shaped by their involvement in defensive violence in response to repression from the state and state-aligned attackers. Learning to counteract this violence changed the operational and cultural character of these organizations, with downstream effects on how these organizations strategically appraised the costs and benefits of using violence against rivals. Furthermore, these organizational changes led to an increased frequency of violence that was non-strategic; that is, it was not performed as the result of a considered and thorough decision-making process. In combination, these mechanisms promoted repeated spirals of fratricidal violence that progressively altered threat perceptions, and thereby encouraged riskier, more concerted applications of violence against rivals. This dissertation fashions this comparative explanation into a generalizable argument about the causes of intra-rebel war in strong states, and provides initial testing of the arguments with two shadow cases, taken from the Algerian independence movement in France and the Sinhalese leftist insurgency in Sri Lanka.

موضوع مستند نشده

International relations

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Atzili, Boaz

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Evans, Tyler

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Thesis]

کد کاربرگه

276903

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y