Inside Insurgency : Violence, Civilians, and Revolutionary Group Behavior / Claire Metelits.
2009
HM886 .M48 2016
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Title
Inside Insurgency : Violence, Civilians, and Revolutionary Group Behavior / Claire Metelits.
Author
Metelits, Claire, author.
ISBN
9780814759554
Published
New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2009]
Copyright
©2009
Language
English
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In English.
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1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers
10.18574/nyu/9780814795774.001.0001 doi
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HM886 .M48 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification
303.64
Summary
Once considered nationalists, many insurgent groups are now labeled as terrorists and thought to endanger not just their own people, but the world. As the unprecedented trends in political violence among insurgents have taken shape, and as hundreds of thousands of civilians continue to be displaced, brutalized, and killed, Inside Insurgency provides startling insights that help to explain the nature of insurgent behavior.Claire Metelits draws from over 100 interviews with insurgent soldiers, commanders, government officials, scholars, and civilians in Sudan, Kenya, Colombia, Turkey, and Iraq, offering a new understanding of insurgent group behavior and providing compelling and intimate portraits of the SPLA, FARC, and PKK. The engaging narratives that emerge from her on-the-ground fieldwork provide incredibly valuable and accurate first-hand documentation of the tactics of some of the world's most notorious insurgent groups. Inside Insurgency offers the reader a timely and intimate understanding of these movements, and explains the changing behavior of insurgent groups toward the civilians they claim to represent.
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Preface
1. Insurgents and Civilian-Targeted Violence
2. Rivals and the Logic of Insurgent Violence
3. "The Elephant Is Not Yet Dead"
4. From Jekyll to Hyde
5. Freedom Fighters or Terrorists?
6. The Theoretical and Practical Implications of Active Rivalry
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Contents
Preface
1. Insurgents and Civilian-Targeted Violence
2. Rivals and the Logic of Insurgent Violence
3. "The Elephant Is Not Yet Dead"
4. From Jekyll to Hyde
5. Freedom Fighters or Terrorists?
6. The Theoretical and Practical Implications of Active Rivalry
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author