ISBN:
9780415622585
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (908 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Routledge Handbook of Civil Wars
DDC:
303.6/4
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
This comprehensive new Handbook explores the significance and nature of armed intrastate conflict and civil war in the modern world.Civil wars and intrastate conflict represent the principal form of organised violence since the end of World War II, and certainly in the contemporary era. These conflicts have a huge impact and drive major political change within the societies in which they occur, as well as on an international scale. The global importance of recent intrastate and regional conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Somalia, Nepal, Cote d'Ivoire, Syria and Libya - amongst others -
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; 1. Introduction; Basic patterns of civil war; Outline of the volume; Theoretical and methodological debates; The causes of civil wars; The nature of armed conflict; International dimensions; The termination and resolution of civil wars; Future directions for civil war studies; References; Part I: Understanding and explaining civil wars: theoretical and methodological debates; 2. Theoretical developments in understanding the origins of civil war; Civil wars enter the agenda
Description / Table of Contents:
Civil wars and conflict dataThe first discussion: the role of ethnicity; The second discussion: the role of economy; The third discussion: the role of governance; And then, all the other topics; Notes; References; 3. Quantitative and econometric methodologies; The emergence of the quantitative method; The basics of the quantitative method; Descriptive statistics; Inferential statistics; Data sources; The advantages of quantitatively analysing civil war; The challenges associated with quantitatively analysing civil war; Mixed methods research; Conclusions; Notes; References
Description / Table of Contents:
4. Anthropological and ethnographic approachesConflict over terms?; What is the ethnographic approach and how is it applicable to civil wars?; Combining quantitative and qualitative approaches in the study of civil war; Conclusion: why ethnography matters; Notes; References; 5. Sociological approaches; The state, revolution and civil wars; Territory and civil war; Globalisation and the new war paradigm; Micro-sociological foundations of insurgencies, terrorism and civil war; Conclusion; Note; References; 6. Micro-level studies; Research questions in micro studies
Description / Table of Contents:
Mobilization, recruitment, and collective actionCivilian targeting; Spatial patterns of civil war violence; Counterinsurgency; Consequences of violence; Data sources in micro-level research; Challenges and future directions; Conclusion; References; 7. Critical perspectives; 'Critical' research; Critical civil war research; A critical ontology of civil war; A critical epistemology of civil war; Methodological issues; A critical praxis of civil war research; Conclusion; References; Part II: The causes of civil wars; 8. Ethnicity and identity conflict; Collective identity; Primordialism
Description / Table of Contents:
ConstructivismFrom ethnic differences to political conflict and civil war; Domestic and international factors; Domestic factors; International factors; Conclusion and way forward; References; 9. Horizontal inequalities and violent conflict: conceptual and empirical linkages; What are horizontal inequalities?; Identifying group categories and measuring horizontal inequalities; Evidence on the relationships between horizontal inequalities and violent conflict; Perceptions of horizontal inequalities affect the likelihood of conflict; Addressing horizontal inequalities; Conclusion; Notes
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