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Kibris, Arzu and Kibris, Özgür (2019) State-society relations in civil conflicts. Terrorism and Political Violence, 32 (1). pp. 138-166. doi:10.1080/09546553.2017.1364634 ISSN 0954-6553.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/09546553.2017.1364634
Abstract
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 honour 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.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | J Political Science > JA Political science (General) | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Political violence., Political participation., Civil war., World politics -- 21st century., Counterinsurgency., Insurgency., Democracy., Civil society., Social conflict. | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Terrorism and Political Violence | ||||||||
Publisher: | Routledge | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0954-6553 | ||||||||
Official Date: | 2019 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 32 | ||||||||
Number: | 1 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 138-166 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1080/09546553.2017.1364634 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 30 August 2017 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 2 April 2019 | ||||||||
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