A Tale of Two Types: Rebel Goals and the Onset of Civil Wars.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Payne, Caroline; Sobek, David
- Source
- Conference Papers -- International Studies Association. 2009 Annual Meeting, p1-47. 48p. 3 Charts, 2 Graphs.
- Subject
- *SOCIAL alienation
*CIVIL war
*RESISTANCE to government
*INSURGENCY
*POLITICAL movements
- Language
Previous research has implicitly assumed that civil wars represent a coherent category of events, but given the variety of rebel goals that supposition seems tenuous. We split civil wars into those where the rebels simply want to remove the government (r ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]