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The logic of violence in civil war / Stathis N. Kalyvas
(Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)

Publisher	(Cambridge : Cambridge University Press)
Year	2006
Authors	*Kalyvas, Stathis N. 1964- author

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Links to the text	Library Off-campus access			OB00188530		Cambridge Core (電子ブック)	9780511818462

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Material Type	E-Book
Media type	機械可読データファイル
Size	1 online resource (xviii, 485 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
Notes	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Jul 2016) Pathologies -- Barbarism -- A Theory of Irregular War I: Collaboration -- A Theory of Irregular War II: Control -- A Logic of Indiscriminate Violence -- A Theory of Selective Violence -- Empirics I: Comparative Evidence -- Empirics II: Microcomparative Evidence -- Intimacy -- Cleavage and Agency -- Data Sources -- Coding Protocols -- Timeline of Conflicts By analytically decoupling war and violence, this book explores the causes and dynamics of violence in civil war. Against the prevailing view that such violence is an instance of impenetrable madness, the book demonstrates that there is logic to it and that it has much less to do with collective emotions, ideologies, and cultures than currently believed. Kalyvas specifies a novel theory of selective violence: it is jointly produced by political actors seeking information and individual civilians trying to avoid the worst but also grabbing what opportunities their predicament affords them. Violence, he finds, is never a simple reflection of the optimal strategy of its users; its profoundly interactive character defeats simple maximization logics while producing surprising outcomes, such as relative nonviolence in the 'frontlines' of civil war HTTP:URL=https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511818462
Subjects	LCSH:Political violence LCSH:Civil war
Classification	LCC:JC328.6 DC22:303.6/4
ID	8000087760
ISBN	9780511818462