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OverviewThis book investigates the origins of civil wars which emerge from failed attempts at democratization. The main aim of this volume is to develop a theoretical explanation of the conditions under which and the mechanisms through which social movements’ struggles for democracy end up in civil war. While the empirical evidence suggests that this is not a rare phenomenon, the literatures on social movements, democratization and civil wars have grown apart from each other. At the theoretical level, Social Movements and Civil War bridges insights in the three fields, looking in particular at explanations of the radicalization of social movements, the failure of democratization processes and the onset of civil war. In doing this, it builds upon the relational approach developed in contentious politics with the aim of singling out robust causal mechanisms. At the empirical level, the research provides in-depth descriptions of four cases of trajectory from social movements for democratization into civil wars: in Syria, Libya, Yemen and the former Yugoslavia. Conditions such as the double weakness of civil society and the state, the presence of entrepreneurs of violence as well as normative and material resources for violence, ethnic and tribal divisions, domestic and international military interventions are considered as influencing the chains of actors’ choices rather than as structural determinants. This book will be of great interest to students of civil wars, political violence, social movements, democratization, and IR in general. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Donatella della Porta (Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy) , Teije Hidde Donker (Bergen University, Norway) , Bogumila Hall (European University Institute, Florence, Italy) , Emin Poljarevic (University of Qatar)Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.430kg ISBN: 9781138224179ISBN 10: 1138224170 Pages: 196 Publication Date: 18 July 2017 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents1. Social movements in civil wars: An introduction, Donatella della Porta 2. Causal mechanisms in civil wars: A sensitizing map, Donatella della Porta 3. Beyond Syria: Civil society in failed episodes of democratization, Teije Hidde Donker 4. The failure of Libyan political transition and the descent into civil war, Emin Poljarevic 5. Yemen’s failed transition: From peaceful protests to war of ‘all against all’, Bogumila Hall 6. Yugoslavia: From social movement to state movement to civil war, Daniel P. Ritter 7. Social movements, democratization, and civil wars: some conclusions, Donatella della PortaReviews'Social Movements and Civil War is an ambitious and exceptionally original book. It analyses four cases of civil war through the prism of contentious politics and pushes our understanding of political violence forward significantly through the authors' imaginative use of the analytical concepts and tools of social movement research.' -- Niall O Dochartaigh, National University of Ireland Author InformationDonatella della Porta is Professor of Political Science and Dean of the Institute for Humanities and the Social Sciences at the Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence, Italy. Teije Hidde Donker is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Comparative Politics at the University of Bergen, Norway. Bogumila Hall has a PhD in Sociology from the European University Institute, Florence, Italy. Emin Poljarevic is a PDRA Research Fellow at Qatar University. Daniel P. Ritter is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Stockholm University, Sweden. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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