Pro-government Anti-government Armed Groups? Toward Theorizing Pro-government “Government Challengers”

This study challenges the presentation of non-state armed groups as divided into anti-government rebels and pro-government proxies and proposes that some pro-government armed groups maintain explicit anti-government rhetoric. It is this anti-government agenda that enables “pro-government” groups to...

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Main Author: Aliyev, Huseyn (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2022
In: Terrorism and political violence
Year: 2022, Volume: 34, Issue: 7, Pages: 1369-1385
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