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Sleeping With The Enemy, Or Putting The Enemy To Sleep? A Theory Of Insurgency-State Interaction, Andres Rangel
Sleeping With The Enemy, Or Putting The Enemy To Sleep? A Theory Of Insurgency-State Interaction, Andres Rangel
Political Science Theses
This paper presents a theory of insurgency-state strategic interaction based on the insurgency’s mode of survival. The theory postulates that, ceteris paribus, illegal resources discourage the insurgents from desiring to control the state and the state from regaining control of the insurgent territory, whereas legal lootable resources “force” the insurgency to embrace the suboptimal strategy of trying to topple the government, while causing the state to desire full control of the insurgent territory. Intensity, the number of combatant deaths over time, will be used to test the theory. Civil conflicts involving insurgencies that rely on illegal resources for most of …
Taxpayers, Thieves, And The State: Fiscal Citizenship In Contemporary Italy, Emanuela Guano
Taxpayers, Thieves, And The State: Fiscal Citizenship In Contemporary Italy, Emanuela Guano
Anthropology Faculty Publications
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