Nonstate Actors in Intrastate Conflicts / / ed. by Dan Miodownik, Oren Barak.

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• MitwirkendeR: Barak, Oren,; Cohen, Chanan,; Fitchette, Robert A.,; Gazit, Orit,; Lindenstrauss, Gallia M.,; Löwenheim, Nava,; Malet, David,; Miodownik, Dan,; Mor, Maayan,; Sela, Avraham,; Sheffer, Gabriel,; Yair, Omer,
• HerausgeberIn: Barak, Oren,; Miodownik, Dan,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2013]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: National and Ethnic Conflict in the 21st Century
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.) :; 1 illus.

Intrastate conflicts, such as civil wars and ethnic confrontations, are the predominant form of organized violence in the world today. But internal strife can destabilize entire regions, drawing in people living beyond state borders-particularly those who share ideology, ethnicity, or kinship with o...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction
• 1. The 'Modern Sherwood Forest': Theoretical and Practical Challenges
• 2. Framing to Win: The Transnational Recruitment of Foreign Insurgents
• 3. State, Society, and Transnational Networks: The Arab Volunteers in the Afghan War (1984-1990)
• 4. A Conceptual Framework for Understanding the Roles of Diasporas in Intrastate Conflicts
• 5. Turkey's Dual Problem: Between Armenia and the Armenian Diaspora
• 6. Turkey, the Kurds, and Turkey's Incursions into Iraq: The Effects of Securitization and Desecuritization Processes
• 7. From a Militia to a Diasporic Community: The Changing Identity of the South Lebanese Army
• 8. Domestic-Regional Interactions and Outside Intervention in Intrastate Conflicts: Insights from Lebanon
• Notes
• Bibliography
• List of Contributors
• Index
• Acknowledgments