Ordinary Rebels: Rank-And-File Militants Between War and Peace by Hanson, Kolby

Ordinary Rebels: Rank-And-File Militants Between War and Peace (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780197792780)

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Ordinary Rebels: Rank-And-File Militants Between War and Peace by Hanson, Kolby

Ordinary Rebels: Rank-And-File Militants Between War and Peace

$29.95
Ordinary Rebels: Rank-And-File Militants Between War and Peace by Hanson, Kolby

Ordinary Rebels: Rank-And-File Militants Between War and Peace

$29.95
Format: Paperback
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How do non-state armed groups change when states look the other way? States rarely engage in total war with militants, even during long-running conflicts. In Ordinary Rebels, Kolby Hanson argues that these periods of state toleration do not simply change armed groups' behavior, but fundamentally transform the organizations themselves by shaping who takes up arms and which leaders they follow. First, because life is safer and easier for cadres, armed groups attract more recruits with few pre-existing commitments to leaders or their goals. Second, because toleration opens opportunities for local governance and armed lobbying, recruits and supporters flock to factions willing to coexist with the state and pursue more modest goals. This book draws on a set of innovative experimental surveys and 75 in-depth interviews tracing four armed movements over time in Northeast India and Sri Lanka. A powerful new theory of how conditions shape the trajectory of non-state armed groups, this book reshapes our understanding of why such organizations become more moderate over time.

Author: Kolby Hanson
ISBN-10: 0197792782
ISBN-13: 9780197792780
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/16/2025
Pages: 232
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.20w x 1.00d
By Kolby Hanson
By Kolby Hanson
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Kolby Hanson is Assistant Professor of Government at Wesleyan University. His research and teaching interests include civil wars, armed organizations, experimental methods, game theory, and South / Southeast Asia. His works have been published in the American Journal of Political Science, Security Studies, International Peacekeeping, and Journal of Experimental Political Science. He received a Ph.D. from Columbia University and a B.A. from Stanford University, both in Political Science. Prior to Wesleyan, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the US Naval War College and at Dartmouth College.

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