Response to Paul Staniland's Review of The Violence Pendulum: Tactical Change in Islamist Groups in Egypt and Indonesia
In: Perspectives on politics, Band 20, Heft 2, S. 663-663
ISSN: 1541-0986
13 Ergebnisse
Sortierung:
In: Perspectives on politics, Band 20, Heft 2, S. 663-663
ISSN: 1541-0986
In: Perspectives on politics, Band 20, Heft 2, S. 659-661
ISSN: 1541-0986
In: Ethnopolitics, Band 21, Heft 2, S. 178-189
ISSN: 1744-9065
In: Terrorism and political violence, Band 33, Heft 4, S. 888-889
ISSN: 1556-1836
In: International negotiation: a journal of theory and practice, Band 25, Heft 3, S. 463-494
ISSN: 1571-8069
Abstract
This article revisits ripeness theory and examines whether conflicts with armed Islamist groups can also be ripe for negotiation. The article argues that armed Islamist organizations can be willing to negotiate and demobilize, but talks are particularly vulnerable to spoilers and public backlash. To examine these dynamics, the article investigates the case of al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya in Egypt. Relying on a variety of primary and secondary sources, including organizational documents and testimonies by the leaders, the analysis shows that the absence of ripeness can indeed explain some of the failures of negotiations. However, when the conflict was finally ripe, talks broke down because of elite divisions and public backlash. The case reveals that there is a dark side to ripeness: the conditions that lead to a mutually hurting stalemate can also lead to public outrage, elite divisions, and opposition to negotiations.
In: Journal of global security studies, Band 5, Heft 1, S. 44-62
ISSN: 2057-3189
AbstractThis article examines how exclusionary policies and repressive measures affect the propensity of Islamist groups in nondemocratic settings to engage in violence. The central argument is that exclusion from electoral politics, from civil society, and from public discourse can increase political grievances, whereas symbolic threats to religious values spark sociocultural grievances; state violence and repression foster a sense of insecurity. The article proposes that Islamist groups are both principled and strategic actors, who may adopt violent rhetoric in response to political or sociocultural grievances, but who resort to violent tactics primarily out of a sense of insecurity. The quantitative examination of twenty-two Islamist groups from the Middle East confirms that exclusionary policies can spark violent rhetoric, whereas repression and threats to the physical integrity of a group increase the propensity toward violent behavior. However, when insecurity turns into disillusionment, groups can also move away from violence if they feel alienated from the public. The close investigation of the Muslim Brotherhood and al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya in Egypt shows that the response to repression depends on the length of the conflict, the level of fragmentation within an organization, and public opinion.
In: Terrorism and political violence, Band 32, Heft 5, S. 949-969
ISSN: 1556-1836
In: Journal of Strategic Security: JSS, Band 5, Heft 2, S. 27-46
ISSN: 1944-0472
In: Terrorism and political violence, Band 24, Heft 5, S. 671-705
ISSN: 1556-1836
In: Studies in conflict and terrorism, Band 40, Heft 5, S. 376-398
ISSN: 1521-0731
In: Studies in conflict & terrorism, S. 1-23
ISSN: 1057-610X
In: Studies in conflict and terrorism, S. 1-26
ISSN: 1521-0731
In: Nations and nationalism: journal of the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism, Band 15, Heft 1, S. 36-59
ISSN: 1469-8129
ABSTRACT. Although alien rule is widely assumed to be illegitimate, nationalist resistance to it varies across time and space. This article explores why there was greater nationalist resistance to Japanese colonial rule in Korea than Taiwan from the turn of the twentieth century to the end of World War II. Resistance to alien rulers requires both a supply of participants in nationalist collective action and a demand for national self‐determination. The article assesses two principal propositions: (1) that the supply of participants increases to the degree that native elites are stripped of their traditional authority and offered few incentives to collaborate; and (2) that the demand for national self‐determination decreases to the degree that alien rule is fair and effective. A comparative analysis of the effects of Japanese alien rule in Taiwan and Korea suggests that nationalist resistance is greater in the earliest phases of occupation, that the greater native elites' opportunities, the weaker the resistance to alien rule; and that the fairer the governance, the weaker the resistance to alien rule.