RT Book
T1 Ordering violence: explaining armed group-state relations from conflict to cooperation
A1 Staniland, Paul 1982-
LA English
PP Ithaca New York London
PB Cornell University Press
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1750894823
AB In Ordering Violence, Paul Staniland advances a broad approach to armed politics - bringing together governments, insurgents, militias, and armed political parties in a shared framework - to argue that governments' perception of the ideological threats posed by armed groups drive their responses and interactions. Staniland combines a unique new dataset of state-group armed orders in India, Pakistan, Burma/Myanmar, and Sri Lanka with detailed case studies from the region to explore when and how this model of threat perception provides insight into patterns of repression, collusion, and mutual neglect across nearly seven decades. Instead of straightforwardly responding to the material or organizational power of armed groups, Staniland finds, regimes assess how a group's politics align with their own ideological projects. Explaining, for example, why governments often use extreme repression against weak groups even while working with or tolerating more powerful armed actors, Ordering Violence provides a comprehensive overview of South Asia's complex armed politics, embedded within an analytical framework that can also speak broadly beyond the subcontinent.
CN JC328.6
SN 9781501761102
SN 9781501761119
K1 Political Violence
K1 Conflict Management
K1 Political Violence : South Asia : Case studies
K1 Conflict Management : South Asia : Case studies
K1 Non-state actors (International relations)
K1 Insurgency : Government policy
K1 Politischer Konflikt
K1 Innenpolitik
K1 Gewalt
K1 Politik
K1 Miliz
K1 Bedrohungsvorstellung
K1 Konfliktregelung
K1 Sicherheitspolitik
K1 Ideologie
K1 Fallstudie
K1 Indien : Pakistan : Sri Lanka : Myanmar : Paramilitärischer Verband : Terrorismus : Bekämpfung