Nonstate Actors in Intrastate Conflicts

Through case studies of Afghanistan, Lebanon, Israel/Palestine and Turkey, this volume examines the manifold roles of external nonstate actors in influencing the outcome of hostilities within a state's borders.

List of contents

Introduction

—Dan Miodownik and Oren Barak with Maayan Mor and Omer Yair

Chapter 1. The 'Modern Sherwood Forest': Theoretical and Practical Challenges

—Oren Barak and Chanan Cohen

Chapter 2. Framing to Win: The Transnational Recruitment of Foreign Insurgents

—David Malet

Chapter 3. State, Society, and Transnational Networks: The Arab Volunteers in the Afghan War (1984-1990)

—Avraham Sela and Robert A. Fitchette

Chapter 4. A Conceptual Framework for Understanding the Roles of Diasporas in Intrastate Conflicts

—Gabriel Sheffer

Chapter 5. Turkey's Dual Problem: Between Armenia and the Armenian Diaspora

—Nava Löwenheim

Chapter 6. Turkey, the Kurds, and Turkey's Incursions into Iraq: The Effects of Securitization and Desecuritization Processes

—Gallia M. Lindenstrauss

Chapter 7. From a Militia to a Diasporic Community: The Changing Identity of the South Lebanese Army

—Orit Gazit

Chapter 8. Domestic-Regional Interactions and Outside Intervention in Intrastate Conflicts: Insights from Lebanon

—Avraham Sela and Oren Barak

Notes

Bibliography

List of Contributors

Index

Acknowledgments

About the author

Edited by Dan Miodownik and Oren Barak

Summary

Through case studies of Afghanistan, Lebanon, Israel/Palestine and Turkey, this volume examines the manifold roles of external nonstate actors in influencing the outcome of hostilities within a state's borders.

Product details

• Authors: Dan (EDT)/ Barak Miodownik, Dan Barak Miodownik
• Assisted by: Oren Barak (Editor), Dan Miodownik (Editor)
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.11.2013
• EAN: 9780812245431
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-4543-1
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: National and Ethnic Conflict i; National and Ethnic Conflict in the 21st Century; National and Ethnic Conflict in the 21st Century; National and Ethnic Conflict i
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law