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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Rebel governance"”.
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Insurgents, Rebel Governance and State-building in sub-Saharan Africa
The scholarship on rebel governance has largely focused on understanding how rebels govern during conflict. However, little is known about how rebel governance influences long-term state reconstruction after conflict. The main objective of this research is to address this gap. The research also …
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The Wartime Origins of Postwar Democratization: Civil War, Rebel Governance, and Political Regimes
… wartime origins. Differences in the nature of rebel governance of civilians generate different social and institutional legacies across civil wars. These legacies can endure into peacetime politics, affecting the latter in often unintended ways. The theory centers on two wartime transformations …
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WHY FIGHT WHEN YOU CAN RULE TOGETHER? REBEL POWER-SHARING DURING CIVIL WARS
Rebel groups operating in multi-ethnic societies during civil wars face complex challenges in consolidating territorial control and establishing governance structures that are inclusive of diverse ethnic constituencies. While existing literature has extensively studied the violent dynamics between …
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Building on Sand: The Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army and State Formation in South Sudan
… analysis of the exercise of power of the rebel Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A). It explores key elements of the trajectories of state formation in South Sudan by examining the nature of internal decision-making within the SPLM/A before and since the country’s independence …
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Interstate rivals’ intervention in third-party civil wars: The comparative case of Saudi Arabia and Iran in Yemen (2004-2018)
… intervention in civil wars, mediation, and rebel governance) and complement them with the literature on Middle East Area Studies. In the analytical framework first, I look at the inter-state dimension and propose that rivals’ initial decision to intervene and their subsequent decisions to …
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Membership Diversity and Tactical Adaptation within Violent Non-State Organizations
… effective challenge against the state; however, rebel groups vary markedly in the size of the tactical repertoires that they employ in their campaign to alter the status quo. Some non-state organizations are more capable of experimenting with and implementing new variations on existing methods …
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When Do Ties Bind? Foreign Fighters, Social Embeddedness, and Combatant Repertoires of Behavior During Civil War
<p>How does the extent to which rebel organizations are embedded into local conflict contexts - i.e. the extent to which they "fit in" or "stand out" from local populations - affect their behavior on and off the battlefield during civil war? This dissertation examines why rebel group propensities …