Author : Laia Balcells
Release : 2017-04-20
Genre : Political Science
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Rivalry and Revenge - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rivalry and Revenge write by Laia Balcells. This book was released on 2017-04-20. Rivalry and Revenge available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.