Rebel Governance in Civil War

Ana Arjona, Nelson Kasfir, Zachariah Mampilly

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN: 9781107102224
• eBook ISBN: 9781316435229
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Comparative Politics
• Index: Politics & International Relations

This is the first book to examine and compare how rebels govern civilians during civil wars in Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Europe. Drawing from a variety of disciplinary traditions, including political science, sociology, and anthropology, the book provides in-depth case studies of specific conflicts as well as comparative studies of multiple conflicts. Among other themes, the book examines why and how some rebels establish both structures and practices of rule, the role of ideology, cultural, and material factors affecting rebel governance strategies, the impact of governance on the rebel/civilian relationship, civilian responses to rebel rule, the comparison between modes of state and non-state governance to rebel attempts to establish political order, the political economy of rebel governance, and the decline and demise of rebel governance attempts.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• Contributors
• Acknowledgments
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Rebel Governance – Constructing a Field of Inquiry: Definitions, Scope, Patterns, Order, Causes
• 3 Del Gobierno de Abajo al Gobierno de Arriba … and Back: Transitions to and from Rebel Governance in Latin America, 1956–1990
• 4 Performing the Nation-State: Rebel Governance and Symbolic Processes
• 5 Rebel Diplomacy: Theorizing Violent Non„-State„ Actors’ Strategic Use of Talk
• 6 Rebel Governance During the Greek Civil War, 1942–1949
• 7 Comparing Rebel Rule Through Revolution and Naturalization: Ideologies of Governance in Naxalite and Naga India
• 8 Myths Set in Motion: The Moral Economy of Mai Mai Governance
• 9 Civilian Resistance to Rebel Governance
• 10 Dialogue Direct: Rebel Governance and Civil Order in Northern Côte d’Ivoire
• 11 The Rebel State in Society: Governance and Accommodation in Aceh, Indonesia
• 12 Organization and Governance: The Evolution of Urban Militias in Medellín, Colombia
• 13 Predatory Rebellions and Governance: The National Patriotic Front of Liberia, 1989–1992
• 14 Conclusion
• Index