Civil Wars
In: Oxford Research Encyclopedia of International Studies
"Civil Wars" published on by Oxford University Press.
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In: Oxford Research Encyclopedia of International Studies
"Civil Wars" published on by Oxford University Press.
In: Foreign Powers and Intervention in Armed Conflicts, S. 123-141
In: Civil wars, Band 25, Heft 2-3, S. 179-186
ISSN: 1743-968X
In: Conflict and Peace in the Modern International System, S. 116-139
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An Introduction to Civil Wars takes an empirical and thematic approach to the study of civil wars. Since World War II, by far most of the wars that have been fought are civil wars--wars between groups within states, like Darfur, Somalia, Congo, Kosovo, and Chechnya--and not wars between sovereign states. The book is organized thematically to address major topics and findings on civil wars, including causes, duration, recurrence, termination, intervention, post-conflict problems, civilian victimization/terrorism, and resource-related issues. Cases at the end of chapters spotlight specific civil wars.
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In: Managing and Settling Ethnic Conflicts, S. 248-270
In: Civil wars, Band 11, Heft 1, S. 5-21
ISSN: 1743-968X
In: Civil wars
ISSN: 1743-968X
The primacy of territorial control in theories of civil war has advanced our understanding of war dynamics, most notably lethal violence, but has hindered our understanding of the distinct ways in which armed groups seek control over people. We propose to complement territorial control by separately conceptualising social control, which we define as the extent to which armed groups have access to people and their resources. Access to people requires different tactics compared to access to territory, because people are mobile. We develop a framework in which state and non-state armed groups choose whether to prioritise territorial or social control first in order to gain sovereignty, which requires both territorial and social control. Alternatively, armed groups choose to pursue territorial control or social control only, resulting in corridors or social networks, respectively. We illustrate the advantages of the framework by showing how it allows us to analyse armed groups' tactics to control access to people, to connect research agendas on armed group violence, governance, and civilian displacement, and to better conceptualise armed group power and strength.
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