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Description

1. xvi, 263 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

1. What explains violence against civilians in civil wars? Why do groups kill civilians in areas where they have full military control and their rivals have no military presence? This innovative book connects pre-war politics to patterns of violence during civil war. It argues that both local political rivalry and local revenge account for violence against civilians. Armed groups perpetrate direct violence jointly with local civilians, who collaborate when violence can help them gain or consolidate local political control. As civil war continues, revenge motives also come into play, leading to spirals of violence at a local level. In an important contribution to the study of the Spanish Civil War, Balcells combines statistical analyses with ethnographic and qualitative research to provide new insights to scholars and academic researchers with an interest in civil war, politics and conflict processes. Rivalry and Revenge is theoretically and empirically rich, and it offers a theory and method generalizable to a wide set of cases.--

Series statement

1. Cambridge studies in comparative politics

Uniform title

1. Cambridge studies in comparative politics

Subject

1. Civil War (Côte d'Ivoire : 2002-2007)
2. Civil War (Spain : 1936-1939)
3. 1936-2007
4. Civil war
5. Political violence
6. Civilians in war
7. Spanischer Bürgerkrieg 1936-1939
8. Gewalt
9. Bürgerkrieg
10. Rivalität
11. Zivilbevölkerung
12. Kriegsopfer
13. Spain > History > Civil War, 1936-1939
14. Côte d'Ivoire > History > Civil War, 2002-2007
15. Côte d'Ivoire
16. Spain

Genre/Form

1. History.

Call number

1. JFE 17-2728

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author

1. Balcells, Laia, author.

Title

1. Rivalry and revenge : the politics of violence during civil war / Laia Balcells, Duke University.

Publisher

1. Cambridge : New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Series

1. Cambridge studies in comparative politics
2. Cambridge studies in comparative politics

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological term

1. 1936-2007

LCCN

1. 2016047817

ISBN

1. 9781107118690 (hbk)
2. 1107118697 (hbk)

Research call number

1. JFE 17-2728