Ted Robert Gurr

Political Rebellion

Causes, outcomes and alternatives

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume comprises key essays by Ted Robert Gurr on the causes and consequences of organized political protest and rebellion, its outcomes and strategies for conflict management. From the Castro-inspired revolutionary movements of Latin America in the 1960s to Yugoslavia's dissolution in ethnonational wars of the 1990s, and the popular revolts of the Arab Spring, millions of people have risked their lives by participating in protests and rebellions. Based on half a century of theorizing and social science research, this book brings together Gurr's extensive knowledge and addresses the key questions surrounding this subject: - What grievances, hopes and hatreds motivated the protesters and rebels? - What did they gain that might have offset myriad deaths and devastation? - How effective are protest movements as alternatives to rebellions and terrorism? -What public and international responses lead away from violence and toward reforms? The essays in the volume are updated and are organized around the evolving themes of the author's research, including theoretical arguments, interpretations and references to the evidence developed in his empirical research and case studies. The concluding essays bring theory and evidence to bear on the past and future of political violence in Africa. This book will be of much interest to student of rebellion, political violence, conflict studies, security studies and IR.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 471g
• ISBN-13: 9780415732826
• ISBN-10: 0415732824
• Artikelnr.: 41250191

Autorenporträt

Ted Robert Gurr is Distinguished University Professor Emeritus in the Department of Government and Politics, University of Maryland, USA. He is internationally-recognized for his theoretical, comparative, and historical studies of societal conflict, and is author of the award-winning books Why Men Rebel (1970, 2010) and Violence in America (19769, 1979, with Hugh Davis Graham). His most recent book is Crime-Terror Alliances and the State (Routledge 2013, with Lyubov Mincheva ).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction PART I: The Why Men Rebel Project: Theories of Rebellion,
Repression, and Responses to Scarcity 1. Psychological Factors in Civil
Violence 2. War, Revolution and the Growth of the Coercive State 3. On the
Political Consequences of Scarcity and Economic Decline PART II. The
Minorities at Risk Project: Patterns, Causes and Management of
Ethnopolitical Conflict 4. Peoples against States: Ethnopolitical Conflict
and the Changing World System 5. Minorities, Nationalists, and Islamists:
Explaining Communal Conflict in the Twenty-first Century 6. Attaining Peace
in Divided Societies: Five Principles of Emerging Doctrine PART III:
Protest, Rebellion, Terrorism: Outcomes and Alternatives 7. On the Outcomes
of Violent Conflict 8. Self-Determination Movements and Their Outcomes 9.
Terrorism in Democracies: When it Occurs, Why it Fails 10. Nonviolence in
Ethnopolitics: Strategies for the Attainment of Group Rights and Autonomy
PART IV. Post-Colonial Africa 11. Explaining Political Violence and
Revolution in Africa 12. How Africa's Civil Wars Ended: Lessons for
Prevention? 13. The Security Challenges of Somalia: Toward a Confederal
Solution 14. Why Men Rebel Revisited: Observations on Revolution in
Contemporary Africa