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Rethinking Violence: States and Non-State Actors in Conflict (Belfer Center Studies in International Security) by Erica Chenoweth, Adria Lawrence, Stathis Kalyvas is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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An original argument about the causes and consequences of political violence and the range of strategies employed. States, nationalist movements, and ethnic groups in conflict with one another often face a choice between violent and nonviolent strategies. Although major wars between sovereign states have become rare, contemporary world politics has been rife with internal conflict, ethnic cleansing, and violence against civilians. This book asks how, why, and when states and non-state actors use violence against one another, and examines the effectiveness of various forms of political violence. In the process of addressing these issues, the essays make two conceptual moves that illustrate the need to reconsider the way violence by states and non-state actors has typically been studied and understood. The first is to think of violence not as dichotomous, as either present or absent, but to consider the wide range of nonviolent and violent options available and ask why actors come to embrace particular strategies. The second is to explore the dynamic nature of violent conflicts, developing explanations that can account for the eruption of violence at particular moments in time. The a

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Author
Erica Chenoweth, Adria Lawrence, Stathis Kalyvas
Publisher
The MIT Press
Published
2010
Language
EN
ISBN
9780262014205
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Political Science, Management, Sociology

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