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Author Krause, Peter, 1979- author.

Title Rebel power : why national movements compete, fight, and win / Peter Krause
Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource
Series Cornell studies in security affairs
Cornell studies in security affairs.
Contents Power, violence, and victory -- Why national movements compete, fight, and win -- The Palestinian national movement : the Sisyphean tragedy of fragmentation -- The Zionist movement : victory hanging in the balance -- The Algerian national movement : the long, bloody march to hegemony -- The Irish national movement : where you stand depends on where you sit -- The politics of national movements and the future of rebel power
Summary Many of the world's states--from Algeria to Ireland to the United States--are the result of robust national movements that achieved independence. Many other national movements have failed in their attempts to achieve statehood, including the Basques, the Kurds, and the Palestinians. In Rebel Power, Peter Krause offers a powerful new theory to explain this variation focusing on the internal balance of power among nationalist groups, who cooperate with each other to establish a new state while simultaneously competing to lead it. The most powerful groups push to achieve states while they are in position to rule them, whereas weaker groups unlikely to gain the spoils of office are likely to become spoilers, employing risky, escalatory violence to forestall victory while they improve their position in the movement hierarchy. Hegemonic movements with one dominant group are therefore more likely to achieve statehood than internally competitive, fragmented movements due to their greater pursuit of victory and lesser use of counterproductive violence. Krause conducted years of fieldwork in government and nationalist group archives in the Middle East, North Africa, and Europe, as well as more than 150 interviews with participants in the Palestinian, Zionist, Algerian, and Irish national movements. This research generated comparative longitudinal analyses of these four national movements involving 40 groups in 44 campaigns over a combined 140 years of struggle. Krause identifies new turning points in the history of these movements and provides fresh explanations for their use of violent and nonviolent strategies, as well as their numerous successes and failures. Rebel Power is essential reading for understanding not only the history of national movements but also the causes and consequences of contentious collective action today, from the Arab Spring to the civil wars and insurgencies in Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, and beyond
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Autonomy and independence movements -- History -- 20th century -- Case studies
Self-determination, National -- History -- 20th century -- Case studies
Political violence -- History -- 20th century -- Case studies
Organizational behavior -- History -- 20th century -- Case studies
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Nationalism & Patriotism.
Autonomy and independence movements
Organizational behavior
Political violence
Self-determination, National
Genre/Form Electronic books
Case studies
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2016050095
ISBN 9781501712678
1501712675
9781501712661
1501712667