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Claire Metelits - Inside Insurgency - 9780814795781 - V9780814795781
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Inside Insurgency

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Description for Inside Insurgency Paperback. Offers an understanding of insurgency and explains the changing behavior of insurgent groups toward the civilians they claim to represent. This book seeks to establish whether contemporary subcultures display modern or postmodern sensibilities and forms. Num Pages: 256 pages, 4 illustrations. BIC Classification: GTJ; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 151 x 16. Weight in Grams: 358.

Once considered nationalists, many insurgent groups are now labeled as terrorists and thought to endanger not just their own people, but the world. As the unprecedented trends in political violence among insurgents have taken shape, and as hundreds of thousands of civilians continue to be displaced, brutalized, and killed, Inside Insurgency provides startling insights that help to explain the nature of insurgent behavior.
Claire Metelits draws from over 100 interviews with insurgent soldiers, commanders, government officials, scholars, and civilians in Sudan, Kenya, Colombia, Turkey, and Iraq, offering a new understanding of insurgent group behavior and providing compelling and intimate portraits of the SPLA, FARC, and PKK. The engaging narratives that emerge from her on-the-ground fieldwork provide incredibly valuable and accurate first-hand documentation of the tactics of some of the world’s most notorious insurgent groups. Inside Insurgency offers the reader a timely and intimate understanding of these movements, and explains the changing behavior of insurgent groups toward the civilians they claim to represent.

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780814795781
SKU
V9780814795781
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50

About Claire Metelits
Claire Metelits is assistant professor of political science at Washington State University.

Reviews for Inside Insurgency
"Inside Insurgencyaddresses a question important to both academics and policymakers: How does one explain the variation in the types and level of victimization of civilian populations by insurgent groups."
Max Abrahams
Middle East Quarterly
"Metelit's book is a great contribution. It offers a relevant, parsimonious and testable theory, while at the same time providing a good springboard into three cases where there is still a lot to be understood."
Global Policy
"Metelits's book is a very useful contribution to undertanding why insurgent groups act as they do. Her first-hand research also will provide grist for futher efforts to explain the strategies and tactics of insurgencies."
Paul R. Pillar
Political Science Quarterly
"Metelits has written an engaging study that contributes a wealth of original data on three insurgencies as well as an innovative argument for why they behave differently toward civilian populations."
Deborah Avant,author of The Market for Force "“A highlight of the final chapter is its finding that well-intentioned reform carried out by states can inadvertently lead to increased insurgent violence."
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