Militant Competition - Justin Conrad, William Spaniel

Militant Competition

How Terrorists and Insurgents Advertise with Violence and How They Can Be Stopped
Buch | Hardcover
200 Seiten
2021
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-83418-6 (ISBN)
118,45 inkl. MwSt
A political economy approach to understanding how militant groups use violence to capture attention and resources. These findings are relevant to scholars of terrorism, political violence, and foreign policy. This is a timely contribution to the research on militant group fragmentation, rivalry, fratricide and demonstrative violence.
Militant groups often use violence, perversely, to gain attention and resources. In this book, the authors analyze how terrorist and rebel organizations compete with one another to secure funding and supporters. The authors develop a strategic model of competitive violence among militant groups and test the model's implications with statistical analysis and case studies. A series of model extensions allow the authors to incorporate the full range of strategic actors, focusing in particular on government efforts to counter and deter violence. The results indicate that the direct effects of competition are not as clear as they may seem, and interventions to alter competitive incentives may backfire if states are not careful. This is a timely contribution to a growing body of political economy research on militant group fragmentation, rivalry, fratricide and demonstrative violence.

Justin Conrad is Associate Professor of International Affairs at the University of Georgia and Director of the Center for International Trade and Security. William Spaniel is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Pittsburgh.

1. Introduction; 2. A formal model of outbidding; 3. The evidence; 4. Outbidding, capacity, and government enforcement; 5. Outbidding as deterrence: endogenous demands in the shadow of group competition; 6. Cornering the market: counterterrorism in the shadow of group formation; Conclusion.

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Zusatzinfo Worked examples or Exercises; 4 Tables, black and white; 24 Line drawings, black and white
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 158 x 235 mm
Gewicht 570 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Europäische / Internationale Politik
Wirtschaft Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik
ISBN-10 1-108-83418-3 / 1108834183
ISBN-13 978-1-108-83418-6 / 9781108834186
Zustand Neuware
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