Transnational Dynamics of Civil War
Cambridge University Press, 3/20/2014
EAN 9781107643253, ISBN10: 1107643252
Paperback, 324 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm
Language: English
Civil wars are the dominant form of violence in the contemporary international system, yet they are anything but local affairs. This book explores the border-crossing features of such wars by bringing together insights from international relations theory, sociology, and transnational politics with a rich comparative-quantitative literature. It highlights the causal mechanisms - framing, resource mobilization, socialization, among others - that link the international and transnational to the local, emphasizing the methods required to measure them. Contributors examine specific mechanisms leading to particular outcomes in civil conflicts ranging from Chechnya, to Afghanistan, to Sudan, to Turkey. Transnational Dynamics of Civil War thus provides a significant contribution to debates motivating the broader move to mechanism-based forms of explanation, and will engage students and researchers of international relations, comparative politics, and conflict processes.
Part I. Civil War
Mobilizing across Borders
1. Transnational dynamics of civil war Jeffrey T. Checkel
Part II. Transnationalized Civil War
2. Copying and learning from outsiders? Assessing diffusion from transnational insurgents in the Chechen wars Kristin M. Bakke
3. Mechanisms of diaspora mobilization and the transnationalization of civil war Fiona B. Adamson
4. Refugee militancy in exile and upon return in Afghanistan and Rwanda Kristian Berg Harpviken and Sarah Kenyon Lischer
5. Rebels without a cause? Transnational diffusion and the Lord's Resistance Army, 1986–2011 Hans Peter Schmitz
6. Transnational advocacy networks, rebel groups, and demobilization of child soldiers in Sudan Stephan Hamberg
7. Conflict diffusion via social identities
entrepreneurship and adaptation Martin Austvoll Nome and Nils B. Weidmann
Part III. Theory, Mechanisms, and the Study of Civil War
8. Causal mechanisms and typological theories in the study of civil conflict Andrew Bennett
9. Transnational dynamics of civil war
where do we go from here? Elisabeth Jean Wood.