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024 7 _a10.7312/pisc19866
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082 0 4 _a355.02/18
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aPischedda, Costantino
_eautore
245 1 0 _aConflict Among Rebels :
_bWhy Insurgent Groups Fight Each Other /
_cCostantino Pischedda.
264 1 _aNew York, NY :
_bColumbia University Press,
_c[2020]
264 4 _c©2020
300 _a1 online resource
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tAcknowledgments --
_t1. Wars Within Wars --
_t2. Windows of Opportunity, Windows of Vulnerability, and Inter- rebel War --
_t3. Inter- rebel War in the Shadow of Genocide: The Kurdish Insurgencies in Iraq --
_t4. Parallel Paths to Ethnic Hegemony: Insurgencies in Ethiopia’s Eritrea and Tigray --
_t5. Inter- rebel War in Lebanon, Sri Lanka, and Syria --
_t6. Are Coethnic Rebel Groups More Likely to Fight Each Other? A Statistical Test --
_tConclusions --
_tList of Acronyms --
_tNotes --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aWhy do rebel groups frequently clash instead of cooperating against their shared enemy, the state? This pattern occurs in conflicts around the world, yet it flies in the face of common notions of strategic logic. Weaving together insights from international relations theory and the study of ethnic politics, Costantino Pischedda presents an original theory to unravel the puzzle of inter-rebel conflict.Examining the dynamics of civil wars in Iraq, Ethiopia, Lebanon, Sri Lanka, and Syria, Pischedda argues that infighting is a calculated response by rebel groups to perceived opportunities and vulnerabilities. Conflicts break out between groups when one sees the potential to eliminate weaker rivals at a low cost or fears the deterioration of its power relative to a competitor and embarks on a desperate gamble. Counterintuitively, Pischedda finds that rebels sharing an ethnic identity are especially prone to violent conflict, as they see each other as both potential existential threats and enticing opportunities for expansion. Since coethnic rebels aspire to control the same community, their antagonism is stark and immediate. In addition, insurgents expect to be able to draw on the resources of defeated rivals from the same ethnic group more easily than they could from those of outsiders. Marshaling a range of data, Pischedda’s mixed-methods study features original interviews conducted with former insurgent leaders. The first book-length examination of inter-rebel fighting, Conflict Among Rebels sheds new light on a key question of civil war dynamics: why the enemy of my enemy is not always my friend.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 27. Jan 2023)
650 0 _aAllegiance.
650 0 _aInsurgency.
650 7 _aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics.
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850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.7312/pisc19866
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231552745
856 4 2 _3Cover
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