RT Article
T1 State-society relations in civil conflicts
JF Terrorism and political violence
VO 32
IS 1
SP 138
OP 166
A1 Kıbrıs, Arzu
A2 Kibris, Özgür
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1837842213
AB Civil conflicts are conceptualized as asymmetric, population-centric military struggles. The argument is that insurgencies, even though they are no match in military power to their state adversaries in many cases, resort to armed struggle nonetheless as a tool to impair state capacity, the quality of governance, and the ability of the state to honor the “social contract” in order to eventually destroy state authority and render the state irrelevant for the society. Note that this argument implies that state-society relations do react to the military course of the conflict. In this article, we provide empirical evidence for this implication. Introducing a new panel dataset on the long-running civil conflict in Turkey, we first conduct a micro-level analysis and demonstrate the significant impact rebel presence has upon state-society relations across localities and time. We then analyze the results of semi-structured interviews we had conducted with a group of experts from the conflict regions to decipher the possible mechanisms behind the association we observe in the data. The interviews support our motivating theoretical argument.
NO Gesehen am 01.03.2023
NO Published online: 02 Oct 2017
K1 Civil conflict
K1 military control
K1 state-society relations
K1 popular support
K1 adjudication
DO 10.1080/09546553.2017.1364634