Friend or foe : militia intelligence and ethnic violence in the Lebanese Civil War /

In wars fought across an ethnic divide, many combatants use ethnicity as a proxy for political loyalties because it is an easy informational shortcut. What is more difficult, for those armed groups that do not seek ethnic separation as a political goal, is to correctly identify non-coethnics who rem...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hägerdal, Nils (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2021]
Series:Columbia studies in Middle East politics.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Ethnic Violence in Nonseparatist Wars
  • The Lebanese Civil War, 1975-1990
  • Demographics, Migration, and Violence
  • Lebanon's Christian Militias
  • Palestinian, Muslim, and Left-Wing Armed Groups.