The Counterinsurgency Dilemma: The Causes and Consequences of State Repression of Human Rights in Civil Wars
Description:
In this project a theory of adaptive differential insurgency growth by the mechanism of repression driven contagion is put forth to explain variation in the membership and spatial expansion of insurgencies from 1981 to 1999. As an alternative to the dominant structural approaches in the civil war literature, Part 1 of the study proposes an interactive model of insurgency growth based on Most and Starr's opportunity and willingness framework. The findings suggest that state capacity, via its imp…
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Date:
May 2010
Creator:
Quinn, Jason Michael