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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Belgin San-Akca (Assistant Professor of International Relations, Assistant Professor of International Relations, Koç University)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 23.10cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 15.50cm Weight: 0.408kg ISBN: 9780190250904ISBN 10: 0190250909 Pages: 320 Publication Date: 03 November 2016 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsList of Maps List of Figures List of Tables List of Abbreviations Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: Bringing Nonstate Armed Groups into the Study of International Relations 2. A Selection Theory of State Support for Rebel Groups 3. Dangerous Companions: Research Design, Data Collection, and Coding Procedures 4. States' Selection Model 5. Rebels' Selection Model 6. Conclusion: Main Trends in State Support of Nonstate Armed Groups Appendix 1. Sample Data Table Appendix 2. Dangerous Companions: Cooperation between States and Nonstate Armed Groups (NAGs) Appendix 3. States with a Single- Party Communist Regime (Up to 2010) Appendix 4. The Entire Cases of Intentional Support, 1945- 2010 Appendix 5. The Entire Cases of De Facto Support, 1945- 2010 Notes Bibliography IndexReviewsBelgin San-Akca explores the main forms of collaboration and support between states and rebel groups. In a thorough and convincing way, States in Disguise details the many motivations states have for supporting rebel groups and demonstrates that rebel groups exercise considerable autonomy in the process. Daniel Byman, Professor in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, and Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution A systematic and innovative analysis of state support for rebel groups that stresses the agency of both sides. Based on an original dataset, the book makes an impressive contribution to understanding these complex and highly consequential relationships as well as to bringing violent non-state actors into the domain of typically state-centric international relations theory. Martha Crenshaw, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University External actors are recognized as playing an important role in contemporary civil conflicts, yet agency is often neglected. This book argues convincingly that support must be understood as result of the interaction between rebels, target states, and potential supporting states, motivated by both domestic and external threats, and offers valuable new data on external support relations. It is a must-read for all interested in the transnational dimensions of civil war. Kristian Skrede Gleditsch, University of Esssex Shedding valuable light on the shady world of covert state support for rebel groups, this book makes a major contribution to the open-polity perspective on civil war. With admirable conceptual clarity and analytical precision, Belgin San-Akca shows that transnational conflict patterns cannot be reduced to rebels opportunistic exploitation of state weakness or simple models of proxy warfare. Instead, States in Disguise explains the interaction of strategies pursued by states and autonomous rebel organizations and how the former support the latter as an common and often crucial, but still unofficial, aspect of international relations. Lars-Erik Cederman, author of Emergent Actors in World Politics: How States and Nations Develop and Dissolve Belgin San-Akca explores the main forms of collaboration and support between states and rebel groups. In a thorough and convincing way, States in Disguise details the many motivations states have for supporting rebel groups and demonstrates that rebel groups exercise considerable autonomy in the process. --Daniel Byman, Professor in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, and Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution A systematic and innovative analysis of state support for rebel groups that stresses the agency of both sides. Based on an original dataset, the book makes an impressive contribution to understanding these complex and highly consequential relationships as well as to bringing violent non-state actors into the domain of typically state-centric international relations theory. --Martha Crenshaw, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University External actors are recognized as playing an important role in contemporary civil conflicts, yet agency is often neglected. This book argues convincingly that support must be understood as result of the interaction between rebels, target states, and potential supporting states, motivated by both domestic and external threats, and offers valuable new data on external support relations. It is a must-read for all interested in the transnational dimensions of civil war. --Kristian Skrede Gleditsch, University of Esssex Shedding valuable light on the shady world of covert state support for rebel groups, this book makes a major contribution to the open-polity perspective on civil war. With admirable conceptual clarity and analytical precision, Belgin San-Akca shows that transnational conflict patterns cannot be reduced to rebels' opportunistic exploitation of state weakness or simple models of proxy warfare. Instead, States in Disguise explains the interaction of strategies pursued by states and autonomous rebel organizations and how the former support the latter as an common and often crucial, but still unofficial, aspect of international relations. --Lars-Erik Cederman, author of Emergent Actors in World Politics: How States and Nations Develop and Dissolve The significance of States in Disguise exceeds its immediate scope. In fact, the book demonstrates the pressing need to remove barriers between the research of international and of domestic politics. San-Akca provides solid foundations for a research agenda that would bridge the gap in the study of conflicts between the often mutually exclusive lenses of international relations and comparative politics. --Ami Pedahzur, Perspectives on Politics Author InformationBelgin San-Akca is Assistant Professor of International Relations at Koç University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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