Political rebellion : causes, outcomes and alternatives /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gurr, Ted Robert, 1936- (Author)
Corporate Author: Ebook Library
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2015.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. The Why Men Rebel Project : theories of rebellion, repression, and responses to scarcity
  • Introduction to Part I
  • Psychological factors in political violence
  • War, revolution, and the growth of the coercive state
  • On the political consequences of scarcity and economic decline
  • Part II. The Minorities At Risk Project : patterns, causes and management of ethnopolitical conflict
  • Introduction to Part II
  • Peoples against states : ethnopolitical conflict and the changing world system
  • Minorities, nationalists, and Islamists : explaining communal conflict in the twenty-first century
  • Attaining peace in divided societies : five principles of emerging doctrine
  • Part III. Protest, rebellion, terrorism : outcomes and alternatives
  • Introduction to Part III
  • On the outcomes of violent conflict
  • Self-determination movements and their outcomes
  • Terrorism in democracies : when it occurs, why it fails
  • Nonviolence in ethnopolitics : strategies for the attainment of group rights and autonomy
  • Part IV. Out of Africa
  • Introduction to Part IV
  • Explaining political violence and revolution in Africa
  • How Africa's civil wars ended : lessons for prevention?
  • The security challenges of Somalia : toward a confederal solution
  • Why men rebel revisited : observations on revolution in contemporary Africa.