Regular Soldiers, Irregular War : : Violence and Restraint in the Second Intifada /

Regular Soldiers, Irregular War : : Violence and Restraint in the Second Intifada / / Devorah S. Manekin.

What explains differences in soldier participation in violence during irregular war? How do ordinary men become professional wielders of force, and when does this transformation falter or fail? Regular Soldiers, Irregular War presents a theoretical framework for understanding the various forms of be...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
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Manekin, Devorah S.,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2020]
©2022
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (264 p.) :; 1 b&w line drawing, 1 map, 3 charts
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Note on Translations and Pseudonyms
  • Introduction: The Production and Restraint of Military Violence
  • 1. Participation in Counterinsurgency
  • 2. Narrating Conflict and Violence: Ex-Combatant Accounts as Data
  • 3. IDF Counterinsurgency in the Second Intifada
  • 4. The Production of Strategic Violence
  • 5. The Dynamics of Entrepreneurial Violence
  • 6. The Production and Control of Opportunistic Violence
  • 7. Beyond Israel: Counterinsurgent Violence and Restraint in Comparative Perspective
  • Conclusion: Violence and Restraint in Counterinsurgency
  • Appendix: Characteristics of the Sample
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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